Quotes from Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood
born 1939 Canada
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Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.
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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.
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“Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain."
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“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
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He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
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“All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”
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