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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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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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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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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 uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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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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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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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
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Reality is the page. Life is the word.
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If swans weren't real myths'd make up.
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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
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Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
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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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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
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She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
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A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.
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Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
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