For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might … - China Mieville

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I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

China Mieville

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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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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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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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

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I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

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I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

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