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In a panel about his work in Comic Con 2010. Quoted in China Miéville Takes Comic Con http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/08/china-mieville-takes-comic-con.

“I want to know everything, he says.”

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China Miéville книга Iron Council

“Anamnesis” (p. 202)
Iron Council (2004)

““Destiny’s bunk,” said the book. “That’s why this lot aren’t the Propheseers anymore.”
“From here on in,” said Mortar, “we’re the Order of Suggesters.””

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China Miéville книга Un Lun Dun

Источник: Un Lun Dun (2007), Chapter 98, “Fit for Heroes” (p. 419)

“It’s the first principle, isn’t it? Whoever’s arguing fiercest for violence is the cop.”

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China Miéville

’Tis the Season (p. 195)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)

“In a newsagent’s he picked up a copy of the Standard, and hesitated by the chocolate, looking at the low-fat version he had trained himself to pretend he liked but suddenly hungry for a real bar, which with guilty devil-may-care he took and paid for.”

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China Miéville книга Go Between

Go Between (p. 129)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)

“You make what you see into a window, and you see what you want through it. You make what you see a sort of a door.”

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China Miéville книга Details

Details (p. 113)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)

“Although we revolutionary socialists are always accused of being Utopian, nothing strikes me as more Utopian than the reformist belief that with a bit of tinkering and some good faith, we can systematically improve the world. You have to ask how many decades of broken promises and failed schemes it will take to disprove that hope. Marxism isn’t about saying you’ll get a perfect world: it’s about saying we can get a better world than this one, and it’s hard to imagine, no matter how many mistakes we make, that it could be much worse than the mass starvation, war, oppression, and exploitation we have now. In a world where 30,000 to 40,000 children die of malnutrition daily while grain ships are designed to dump food into the sea if the price dips too low, it’s worth the risk.”

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China Miéville

Interview with Joan Gordon

“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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China Miéville книга The Scar

Part 7 “The Lookout”, chapter 47 (p. 557)
The Scar (2002)

“How is it appropriate to feel? she thought. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It’s the surplus of animal fear, it’s never indicated, it’s nothing but itself.”

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China Miéville книга Keep

Keep (p. 280)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“I told myself I had no choice but in a situation like that the choice you have is how you go about not having a choice.”

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China Miéville книга The Dusty Hat

The Dusty Hat (p. 211)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.”

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China Miéville книга The Dusty Hat

The Dusty Hat (p. 203)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“You were sick of sentimentality, of the moralism, maneuvering, and malice that comes with it.”

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China Miéville книга The Dusty Hat

The Dusty Hat (p. 202)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Do you even know why you’re angry with me?”

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China Miéville книга After the Festival

Simone shouted.
“Oh, I’ll figure something out,” Tova said.
After the Festival (p. 196)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“So what’s your alternative?”

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China Miéville книга The Dusty Hat

people say, as if that’s logic. We don’t have to have an alternative, that’s not how critique works. We may do, and if we do, you’re welcome, but if we don’t that no more invalidates our hate for this, for what is, than does that of a serf for her lord, her flail-backed insistence that this must end, whether or not she accompanies it with a blueprint for free wage labour. Than does the millennially paced rage of the steepening shelf of the benthic plain for a system imposed by the cruelest and most crass hydrothermal vent, if that anemone-crusted angle of descent does not propose a submerged lake of black salt.
The Dusty Hat (p. 215)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Abomination from one perspective, it was advertising copy from another.”

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China Miéville книга The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 102)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemized words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted Book of Thoth, and not know that you have written an incantation.”

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China Miéville книга The 9th Technique

The 9th Technique (p. 102)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)

“They think I’m old-fashioned? Is being against racism and hatred old-fashioned? OK, I’m old-fashioned.”

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China Miéville книга The Junket

The Junket (p. 320)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)