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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
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.
David Mitchell
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
David Mitchell
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.
David Mitchell
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.
David Mitchell
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
David Mitchell
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.
David Mitchell
... 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.
David Mitchell
If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
David Mitchell
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
David Mitchell
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
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Do ants get headaches?
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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
David Mitchell
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
David Mitchell
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.
David Mitchell
Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
David Mitchell
clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
David Mitchell
The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
David Mitchell
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
David Mitchell
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
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