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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
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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... 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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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
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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.
David Mitchell
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
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The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
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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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clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
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Time is the speed at which the past decays.
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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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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
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Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.
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As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
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Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
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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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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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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
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