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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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Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
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Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
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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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Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
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What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
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Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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I think we think in terms of stories.
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I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
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Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
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What is poker? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
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