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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
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We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.
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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
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Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
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Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages legitimizes its outcomes gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
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Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
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The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
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over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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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.
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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Music’s a wood you walk through.
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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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