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Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

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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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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If swans weren't real myths'd make up.
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If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
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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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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
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The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
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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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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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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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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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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
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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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