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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.
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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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There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.
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I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
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So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
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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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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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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.
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Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
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A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
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