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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
Composer
Linguist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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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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I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
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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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Have you noticed, said John, how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
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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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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
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The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
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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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I'm not a great deep political thinker.
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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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The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?
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The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.
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Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.
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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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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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I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
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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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