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“She probably used proxies and a cleaner-upper online too, because there was bugger-all of interest in her cache.”
“You have no idea what you’re saying, do you, boss?”
“None at all. I had the techies write it all out phonetically for me.”

— China Miéville The City & the City (2009)

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Could you really feel the hand of destiny while pointing a Glock?

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

"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."

Perdido Street Station (2000)

What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.

Embassytown (2011)

There are people out there who’d rather be tools than people.

Kraken: An Anatomy (2010)

There are no cats in UnLondon, for example, because they’re not magic and mysterious at all, they’re idiots.

Un Lun Dun (2007)

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