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The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

David Mitchell

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
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I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
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I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
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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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Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.
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My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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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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Teachers're always using that in your own words. I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
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I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
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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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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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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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