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My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.
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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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.
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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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