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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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If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
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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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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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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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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
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I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.
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We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
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I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
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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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I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
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Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
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My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
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