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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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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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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
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I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
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Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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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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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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