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Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
David Mitchell
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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
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Science Fiction Writer
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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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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Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
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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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