English - Novelist | 1972 -
I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.
Nick Harkaway
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The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale.
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We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.
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Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.
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I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.
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Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.
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Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.
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I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.
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'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai.
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All my characters are me, in one way or another.
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Being a parent is weird. It changes people in subtle and unsubtle ways. In my case, it awoke a kind of manic sentinel in my brain. Anything in the house that might be a threat to the kids or to my wife gets terminated - food, sharp edges, poor wiring.
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The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.
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