David Mitchell
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“Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it’s true for people, it’s also true on a national or cultural level.” -David Mitchell
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“As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can’t take off.” -David Mitchell
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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.” -David…
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“Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.” -David Mitchell
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“Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.” -David Mitchell
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“If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.” -David Mitchell
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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.” -David Mitchell
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“A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.” -David Mitchell
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In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we’re now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals. – David Mitchell
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