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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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David Henry Mitchell
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... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
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Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
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