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Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
Composer
Linguist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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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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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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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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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
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I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.
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So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
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The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
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The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
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