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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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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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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
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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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The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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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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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
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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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I'm not a great deep political thinker.
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... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
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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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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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