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I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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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 wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
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Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
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If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
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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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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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The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
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Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
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clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
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What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
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- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.
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