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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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Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
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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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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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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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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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So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
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Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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Do ants get headaches?
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The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.
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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
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Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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