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Oryx and Crake quotes

Margaret Atwood

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“how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won’t or can’t love you. As a species we’re pathetic...” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“We understand more than we know.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be...” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“After everything that’s happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“When any civilization is dust and ashes . . . art is all that’s left over.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“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.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“There’s something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you’re still alive.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“Every habit he’s ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him.” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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