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I think we think in terms of stories.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
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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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If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
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You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
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Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.
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The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.
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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
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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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Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.
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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.
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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
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She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
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The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
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