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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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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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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.
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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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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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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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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
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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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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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Reality is the page. Life is the word.
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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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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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
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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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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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