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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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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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A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
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Have you noticed, said John, how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
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Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.
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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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