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There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
David Mitchell
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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
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Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
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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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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
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Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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Time is the speed at which the past decays.
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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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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
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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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I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
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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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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, History suggests, not until they are made to.
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A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
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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 am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
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