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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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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
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I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
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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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Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
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Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages legitimizes its outcomes gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
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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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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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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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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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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
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If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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