“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, born in Catford, in South-East London, in 1952, is a British writer and paperfolding designer. He is the author of many books on specialist aspects of origami, such as *Origami*, *Origami Animals*, *Sticky Note Origami*, *Office Origami* and *Origami Alfresco*. He lives in Kendal, Cumbria. **Source**: [Author's website](http://www.origamiheaven.com/aboutdavidmitchell.htm)
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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.”
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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.”
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“People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Bel...”
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“I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.”
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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...”
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“I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.”
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“The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.”
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“I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.”
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“'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?”
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