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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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What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
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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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The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.
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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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I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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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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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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Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages legitimizes its outcomes gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
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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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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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Do ants get headaches?
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Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
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What is poker? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
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