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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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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Have you noticed, said John, how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
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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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I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
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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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I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
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I'm not a great deep political thinker.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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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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The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.
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Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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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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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
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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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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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