Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, … - Hal Duncan

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A born terror, a rebel without a pause. . . Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

Hal Duncan

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

Gender, Identity, Prejudice, Same, Skins

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Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

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Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

Arses, Bite, Destiny, History, Sometimes

With undead armies, psychotic angels and exploding airships, Scar Night is a gripping, ripping yarn which rattles along at a great pace. Tether all that to the knock-out image at the heart of the novel-Deepgate, a Gothic city built on a network of chains over a great abyss-and you have urban fantasy at its best.

Angel, Army, Heart, Scar, Tether, Yarn

I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of "nil paseran" - "none shall pass" - in the face of fascism?

Attitude, Come, Conflict, Exploring, Passionate, Rejection

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

Fiction, Genres, Jeter, Wallace, Yeats

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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.

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Steve Jobs

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

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Jeanette Winterson

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

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Shyheim

A born terror, a rebel without a pause. . . Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

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Don Hertzfeldt

After working so long on something like this, it's great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn't just working in a cave by myself for no reason.

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