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Lauren Beukes quotes

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: b. June 5, 1976

Birthday: June 5

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Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

source: - Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.84, Jacana Media

Topics: Moving, Thinking, Jam, Democratic Process, Get Moving

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Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

source: - Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.123, Jacana Media

Topics: Fashion, Skins, Different

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

Topics: People, Mind, Want, Reassurance

World needs more angels, even plywood ones.

Topics: Angel, Needs, World

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

Topics: Justice, Fairy Tale, Fairy

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

Topics: Secret, Three, Secret Life

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

source: - Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.7, Jacana Media

Topics: Morning, News

Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online.

source: - "Broken Monsters". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2014.

Topics: Media, Wings, Trying

I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

source: - Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.150, Jacana Media

Topics: Stars, Believe, Dna, Celestial Bodies

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

Topics: Wheels

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

Topics: Order, Trying, Patterns

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

Topics: Memories, Forget

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

Topics: Memories, Locks, Snapshots

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

Topics: Interesting, Plot, World

Only other people can make you feel real.

Topics: Real, People, Feels

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

source: - "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.

Topics: War, Relentless, Loud

She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams

Topics: Dream, Origami, Disappear

So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.

source: - Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.149, Jacana Media

Topics: Ems, Answers, Body

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

Topics: Real, Justice, Fiction

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

source: - "Lauren Beukes takes Rapunzel to Japan in ‘Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom’". Interview with Blake Hennon, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 25, 2013.

Topics: Mind, Working With Others, Collaborating

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