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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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David Henry Mitchell
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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
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clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
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Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
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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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Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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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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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
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So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
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What is poker? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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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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