China Mieville Quotes - Page 4

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• My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.

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  Beautiful, Hippie, Names

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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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  Children, Thinking, Youth

  "Embassytown". Book by China Mieville, 2011.

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• Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

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  Attention, Fiction, Fantasy

  "This much I know". Interview With Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• Anything for gold and experience.

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  Gold

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• While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

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  Recovery, Yes We Can, Smell

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• In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

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  Goodbye, Healing, Loss

  "The Scar". Book by China Miéville, books.google.ru. August 28, 2008.

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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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  Mean, Reality, Actions Have Consequences

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• Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

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  Children, Book, Dragons

  “This much I know” by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• The dead are way more organized than the living.

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  Way, Organized

  "Un Lun Dun". Book by China Mievill, January, 2007.

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• I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

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  Mean, Facts, Minimalist

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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• One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

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  Fiction, Fantasy, Weirdness

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

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  Sex, Fiction, Prestige

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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