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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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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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One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
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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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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
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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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The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
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over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
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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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Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
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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.
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Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
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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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