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Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.David Mitchell
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When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.David Mitchell
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Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.David Mitchell
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In March of 1915, all three of Lord and Lady Chetwynd-Pitt's sons'd been gassed, blown up or machine-gunned in the very same week at the battle of Neuve-Chapelle. All three. Imagine that: On Monday, you've got three sons, by Friday you've got none. Lady Albertina had just, y'know, caved in. Physically, mentally, spiritually, brutally.David Mitchell
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A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.David Mitchell
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All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.David Mitchell
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Coffee’s the elixir of life.David Mitchell