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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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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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Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
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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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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
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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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Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, History suggests, not until they are made to.
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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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The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
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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 think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
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I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
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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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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'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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Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
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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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Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.
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