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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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Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
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- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.
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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
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As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
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I think we think in terms of stories.
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A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
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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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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?
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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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Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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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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