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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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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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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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
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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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The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
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But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, History suggests, not until they are made to.
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Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
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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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The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
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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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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
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Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
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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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Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
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