It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.
“You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.”
― Another Roadside Attraction
― Another Roadside Attraction
“The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.”
― Another Roadside Attraction
― Another Roadside Attraction
“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
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.”
― Another Roadside Attraction
― Another Roadside Attraction
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