David Mitchell | relationship
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.
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David Mitchell | future
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.
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David Mitchell | funny
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.
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David Mitchell | experience
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
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David Mitchell | death
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.
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David Mitchell | dad
I’ve become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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David Mitchell | car
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.
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