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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.
China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
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I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.
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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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So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
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