Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. 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 ATWOODHow shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.
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I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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