Trees’re always a relief, after people.
– David Mitchell
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- Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain. – Adriana Trigiani
- But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way -” it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people’s women who pay the most. – David Mitchell
- I just realized that I don’t have to have an opinion about everything–what a relief! – David R Hawkins
- It’s late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under. – Joaquin Lowe
- I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People. – David Mitchell
- I added ‘writers’ to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. – David Mitchell
- Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don’t respect cowards. – David Mitchell
- This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves. – David Mitchell
- Poverty without a people’s government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. – Holly Near
- Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people. – John Duncan
- Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. – David Mitchell
- Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. – David Mitchell
- There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything’s already turning into something else! – David Mitchell
- Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all – David Mitchell
- One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards will be at one’s throat all the sooner. – David Mitchell
- Disco’s are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don’t. – David Mitchell
- I’ve never listened to music lying down. Listening’s reading if you close your eyes.Music’s a wood you walk through. – David Mitchell
- Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast. – David Mitchell
- A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat – David Mitchell
- So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . – David Mitchell
- Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them. – David Mitchell
- This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think. – David Mitchell
- There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums. – David Mitchell
- Life’s more science-fictiony by the day. – David Mitchell
- London is a language. I guess all places are. – David Mitchell
- Sometimes language can’t even read the music of meaning. – David Mitchell
- Don’t worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. – David Mitchell
- Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there. – David Mitchell
- Nothing has changed, except everything. – David Mitchell
- Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction – David Mitchell
- Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs. – David Mitchell
- When a woman is interested in you, she’ll let you know; if not, there’s no aftershave, gift, or line you can spin to make her change her mind. – David Mitchell
- The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning. – David Mitchell
- You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you. – David Mitchell
- Is peace of mind the co-workability of your laws? – David Mitchell
- A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one. – David Mitchell
- On bad days you wonder, -˜Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife? – David Mitchell
- One’s ribs shouldn’t be prison bars. – David Mitchell
- Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you. – David Mitchell