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David Mitchell
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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Clarkfield
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David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
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Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
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Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
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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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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
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Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
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Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages legitimizes its outcomes gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
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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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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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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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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
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The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.
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I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.
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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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