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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

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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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If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
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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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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
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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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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.
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I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
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I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.
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The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
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Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
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