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Auntie had survived the reign of eight emperors, knew the lyrics to a hundred songs with only minor inaccuracies, and could recall all the girls who had come and gone through the House of Heavenly Peaches over the years.
“By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.”
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“But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
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