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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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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
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Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
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. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
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I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
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I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
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... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear fear engenders hatred hatred engenders violence violence engenders further violence until the only rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.
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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
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Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
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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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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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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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