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- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
- Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways…
- Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth…
- The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
- What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
- Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
- Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do…
- In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself…
- Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire…
- Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . .…
- Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
- Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder…
- Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor,…
- You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I…
- When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut…
- What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and…
- Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his…
- Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought…
- By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your…
- I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
- I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
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