I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute … - China Mieville

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We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

China Mieville

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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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

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For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

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My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

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I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

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