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> [Perception of a state is not the state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/perception-of-a-state-is-not-the-state/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

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## More by M. John Harrison

> [Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/identity-is-not-negotiable-an-identity-you-have-achieved-by-agreement/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

> [Perception of a state is not the state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/perception-of-a-state-is-not-the-state/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

> [I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/i-think-it-s-undignified-to-read-for-the-purposes-of-escape-after-you/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

> [Everyone loves a mysterious country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/everyone-loves-a-mysterious-country/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

> [“As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs tense. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/as-they-moved-from-exhibit-to-exhibit-like-reluctant-tourists-in-some/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

> [“He ran toward the light. When he passed the corpse of his dead friend, he began to weep again. He picked up his sword.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/he-ran-toward-the-light-when-he-passed-the-corpse-of-his-dead-friend/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

> [“Some internal process held him rapt. He had begun, perhaps, to map the paths inside himself which led to the Past. This gave him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/some-internal-process-held-him-rapt-he-had-begun-perhaps-to-map-the/)

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> [Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/budapest-is-a-prime-site-for-dreams-the-east-s-exuberant-vision-of/)

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> [Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/writing-s-like-gambling-unpredictable-and-sporadic-successes-make-you/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

> [“You can't cure people of their character,' she read. After this he had crossed something out then gone on, 'You can't even change yourself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/you-can-t-cure-people-of-their-character-she-read-after-this-he-had/)

[M. John Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-john-harrison/)

> [“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds the knife;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/when-the-landed-gentry-cut-up-a-seed-cake-for-tea-it-makes-no/)

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> [Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/egnaro-is-a-secret-known-to-everyone-but-yourself-it-is-a-country-or/)

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> [A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/a-good-ground-rule-for-writing-in-any-genre-is-start-with-a-form-then/)

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> [“Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!' 'I don't do portraits,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/write-something-about-me-then-he-said-when-i-came-back-he-grinned-go/)

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> [“I think it’s undignified to read for the purposes of escape…. If you read for escape you will never try to change your life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-john-harrison/i-think-it-s-undignified-to-read-for-the-purposes-of-escape-if-you/)

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