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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

Topics: Along Badge Civilisation Ethnicity Future Generally Interesting Keeps Long Merely Off Our Possibility Take Then Uniform Where You

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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Arrogance False False Modesty Modesty Than Worse

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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

Topics: Condition Death Helium Human Human Condition Hydrogen Love Maybe Oxygen Periodic Power Reckon Table Were Where Would

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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Adaptation Any Believe Degree Desirable Faithful Inevitable Language May New Only Such A Thing Thing Translation I Believe

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Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Feel Food Good Japanese Makes Me Particularly

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There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Because Disease Hubris Out Stopping Suppose Susceptible Which Why Will Without Work Work Out Writers Young Young Writers I Can

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When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.

~David Mitchell

Topics: About Any Between Border Context Conversations Cultural Discover Hotel Hotel Room India Just Life Nepal Other Out Own Point Really Room Things You Your Yourself

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It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

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Topics: Adept Become Construction More Sentence True

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My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Any Books Deeply Other Religious Stance Validity

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You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Part-Time Richard You

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 12th, 1969

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