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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Minnesota
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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
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Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
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The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.
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Time is the speed at which the past decays.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
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If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.
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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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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
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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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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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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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The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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