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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
David Mitchell
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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
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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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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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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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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
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I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.
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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
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