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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
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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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If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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Reality is the page. Life is the word.
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One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
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What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
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The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
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Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
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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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Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages legitimizes its outcomes gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
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Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
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