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My mother always says bad fortune follows our family like a hungry dog nosing at our pockets for scraps.
“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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“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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“The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.”
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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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