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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
Composer
Linguist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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I think we think in terms of stories.
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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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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
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If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
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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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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
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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 think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
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The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
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The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
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Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
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Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.
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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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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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