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Quote by David Mitchell
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery

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

Other quotes by David Mitchell

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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Death
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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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Experience
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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 its true for people, its also true on a national or cultural level. – David Mitchell

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relationship
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David Mitchell
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Other Quotes from
car
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I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping. – Jonathan Winters

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car

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. Theyd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and wed think: Oh, please Lord, dont make us go through that. – Paul Reiser

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car

It was all that stuff about taking your parents car when youre 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent. – Donal Logue

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car

You cant show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car. – Doris Roberts

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car

Random Quotes

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. – Albert Camus

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Death

We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. – Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007

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War

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. – Lionel Blue

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Religion

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. – Noam Chomsky

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Propaganda