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But Isaac’s research-unchanged in its aims over all those years-could not proceed in a vacuum. He had to publish. He had to debate. He had to argue, to attend conferences-as the rogue, the rebellious son. There were great advantages to renegacy.

— China Miéville Perdido Street Station (2000)

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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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