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China Mieville Quotes

Anything for gold and experience Picture Quote #1

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus Picture Quote #1

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me Picture Quote #1

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back Picture Quote #1

I couldn’t tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid Picture Quote #1

Personally I don’t like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books Picture Quote #1

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To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to … for all we individuals to have … our choices Picture Quote #1

This was the most difficult, the most extraordinary transition. Her body had been a source of shame and disgust; to engage in activities with no purpose at all except to revel in their sheer physicality had first nauseated, then terrified, and finally liberated her Picture Quote #1

Lin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm. It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew. It was parasitic Picture Quote #1

Art’s something you choose to make … it’s a bringing together of … of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person Picture Quote #1

A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge Picture Quote #1

It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage Picture Quote #1

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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they’re not absurd Picture Quote #1

Art is something you choose to make... it’s a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person Picture Quote #1

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor Picture Quote #1

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am Picture Quote #1

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote Picture Quote #1

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not Picture Quote #1

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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on Picture Quote #1

I’d never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn’t see how that wasn’t cowardice Picture Quote #1

We speak now or I do, and others do. You’ve never spoken before. You will. You’ll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before Picture Quote #1

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion Picture Quote #1

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it’s not nearly fantastic enough. It’s escapist, but it can’t escape Picture Quote #1

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care Picture Quote #1

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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad God Picture Quote #1

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me Picture Quote #1

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul Picture Quote #1

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It’s only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth Picture Quote #1

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? Picture Quote #1

We should have just killed him, that’s a lesson, don’t get creative with revenge Picture Quote #1

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Anything for gold and experience (China Mieville Quotes) A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus (China Mieville Quotes) Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me (China Mieville Quotes) The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back (China Mieville Quotes) I couldn’t tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid (China Mieville Quotes) Personally I don’t like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books (China Mieville Quotes) To take the choice of another … to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to … for all we individuals to have … our choices (China Mieville Quotes) This was the most difficult, the most extraordinary transition. Her body had been a source of shame and disgust; to engage in activities with no purpose at all except to revel in their sheer physicality had first nauseated, then terrified, and finally liberated her (China Mieville Quotes) Lin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm. It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew. It was parasitic (China Mieville Quotes) Art’s something you choose to make … it’s a bringing together of … of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person (China Mieville Quotes) A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge (China Mieville Quotes) It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage (China Mieville Quotes) Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they’re not absurd (China Mieville Quotes) Art is something you choose to make... it’s a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person (China Mieville Quotes) Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor (China Mieville Quotes) My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am (China Mieville Quotes) Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote (China Mieville Quotes) Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they’re amiable and sometimes not (China Mieville Quotes) Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on (China Mieville Quotes) I’d never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn’t see how that wasn’t cowardice (China Mieville Quotes) We speak now or I do, and others do. You’ve never spoken before. You will. You’ll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before (China Mieville Quotes) I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion (China Mieville Quotes) The problem with most genre fantasy is that it’s not nearly fantastic enough. It’s escapist, but it can’t escape (China Mieville Quotes) She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care (China Mieville Quotes) I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad God (China Mieville Quotes) Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me (China Mieville Quotes) A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul (China Mieville Quotes) It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It’s only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth (China Mieville Quotes) Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? (China Mieville Quotes) We should have just killed him, that’s a lesson, don’t get creative with revenge (China Mieville Quotes)

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