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“If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“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...”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
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