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I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Mitchell

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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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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Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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Time is the speed at which the past decays.
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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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Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
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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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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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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
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