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The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?
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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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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Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
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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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clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
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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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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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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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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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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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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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Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
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