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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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... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
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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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If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
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The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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Music’s a wood you walk through.
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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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Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.
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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
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. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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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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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
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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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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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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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... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear fear engenders hatred hatred engenders violence violence engenders further violence until the only rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.
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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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