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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
David Mitchell
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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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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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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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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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I think we think in terms of stories.
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I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
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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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Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
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Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
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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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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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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
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Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
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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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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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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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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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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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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
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