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I think we think in terms of stories.

David Mitchell

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
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