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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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Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
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I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.
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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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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
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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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... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear fear engenders hatred hatred engenders violence violence engenders further violence until the only rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.
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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
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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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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
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Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
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