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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
David Mitchell
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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
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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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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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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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Reality is the page. Life is the word.
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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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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
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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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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, History suggests, not until they are made to.
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Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
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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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I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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Do ants get headaches?
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Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
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A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.
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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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