“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.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is."
So?"
So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.”
― Oryx and Crake
So?"
So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.”
― Oryx and Crake
“EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
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“The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses, as he was soon in the habit of quipping during Happy Hour pickup time at the local campus bars and pubs. He couldn’t say he was looking forward to it, this rest-of-his-life.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
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