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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
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One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
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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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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
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Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
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She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
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I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.
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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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Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
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Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.
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I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
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I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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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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