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David Mitchell

"Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores."

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"Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel."

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"One dream, will suffice a thousand nightmares."

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"Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image."

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"To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest."

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"The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important."

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"Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on."

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"Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered."

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"Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored."

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"There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below."

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"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."

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"I watched the stars and thought of other lives."
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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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"But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person."
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"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love."
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"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."
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"Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do."
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"You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human."
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"Oh, once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back. Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. "We-by whom I mean anyone over sixty-commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman's memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight."
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