China Miéville Short Quotes

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Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

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She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.

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We're all racing, he said.
Yeah, but some of us in the wrong direction.

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Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.

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When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. We say: A government for need not greed!

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I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually 'Yes'.

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Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war.

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The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism.

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She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

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The chief was a thuggish man: nervous, Cutter saw, because he knew he was a mediocrity become by kink of history a ruler.

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I'm not waiting to die, I don't believe I'll die, I am waiting for something else.
To arrive. To understand. To be at my destination.

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We say what happens now. We're taking control. We're turning around; we're heading home. Your orders to proceed... are in-fucking-validated.

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Judah knows the trow will be eradicated and their homes lost to history, but he will not be party to it, and he has tried to stand in its way.

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History... Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.

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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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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.

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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.

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Tearfly looked at Bellis curiously, bewildered by her ignorance. She did not care. What was important to her was where she was fleeing from, not where she was, or where she was going.

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