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The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
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A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.
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The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
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Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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