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 ATWOODMaybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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We are silent, considering shortfalls. There’s not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it’s not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
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Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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