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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
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, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.
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Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
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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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Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.
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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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The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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