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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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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
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Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
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Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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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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If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
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I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
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The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
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Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
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If swans weren't real myths'd make up.
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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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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
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The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?
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The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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