When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What … - David Mitchell

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Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.

David Mitchell

When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

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. . . it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

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If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

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True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.

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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

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