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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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Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
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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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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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. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.
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What is poker? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
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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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Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
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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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clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
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Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
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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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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
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Do, said Louisa finally, whatever you can't not do.
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Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
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