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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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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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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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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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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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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
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- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.
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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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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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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
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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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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
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Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
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Teachers're always using that in your own words. I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
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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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Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
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