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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.
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If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.
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My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
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Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
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A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
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