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"Your version of the truth is the only one that matters."
"Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths."
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Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.
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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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War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
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What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
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Now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.
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The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
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She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
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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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Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,
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Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.
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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
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Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.
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Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
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But ain't dyin' terrorsome cold if there ain't nothin' after?
Yay—she sort o' laughed but not smilin', nay—our truth is terrorsome cold.
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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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Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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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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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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"But it's been done a hundred times before!" — As if there could be anything not done a hundred thousand times between Aristophanes and Andrew Void Webber! As if Art is the What, not the How!
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The actual past is brittle, ever-dimming + ever more problematic to access + reconstruct: in contrast, the virtual past is malleable, ever-brightening + ever more difficult to circumvent/expose as fraudulent. The present presses the virtual past into its own service, to lend credence to its mythologies + legitimacy to the imposition of will.
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If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way.
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Born:
January 12, 1969
(age 55)
Bio:
David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written seven novels, two of which, number9dream and Cloud Atlas, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has lived in Italy, Japan, and Ireland.
Known for:
Peep Show (2003 – 2015)
That Mitchell and Webb Look (2006 – 2010)
Would I Lie to You? (Since 2007)
Mock the Week (Since 2005)
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