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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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 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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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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If swans weren't real myths'd make up.
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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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Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
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Do, said Louisa finally, whatever you can't not do.
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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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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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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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... 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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Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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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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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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