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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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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.
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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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Have you noticed, said John, how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
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We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
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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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Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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Teachers're always using that in your own words. I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.
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Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
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I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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