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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    Let's pretend this, let's pretend that. 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.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    Why do you want to talk about ugly things?" she said. ... "We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are looking only at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you."She would never tell him. Why did this drive him so crazy? "It wasn't real sex was it?" he asked. "In the movies. It was only acting. Wasn't it?""But Jimmy, you should know. All sex is real.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    {H}aving a money value was no substitute for love.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    Everything in his life was temporary, ungrounded. Language itself had lost its solidity; it had become thin, contingent, slippery, a viscid film on which he was sliding around like an eyeball on a plate. An eyeball that could still see, however. That was the trouble.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    {T}he mothers who had sold their children felt empty and sad. They felt as if this act, done freely by themselves {no one had forced them, no one had threatened them} had not been performed willingly. They felt cheated as well, as if the price had been too low. Why hadn't they demanded more? And yet, the mothers told themselves, they'd had no choice.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    After the wolvogs have gone he lies on his back on the platform, gazing up at the stars through the gently moving leaves. They seem close, the stars, but they're far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    Some cheap do-it-yourself enlightenment handbook, Nirvana for halfwits.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    Part of what impelled him was stubbornness; resentment, even. The system had filed him among the rejects, and what he was studying was considered-at the decision-making levels, the levels of real power-an archaic waste of time. Well then, he would pursue the superfluous as an end in itself. He would be its champion, its defender and preserver. Who was it who'd said that all art was completely useless? Jimmy couldn't recall, but hooray for him, whoever he was. The more obsolete a book was, the more eagerly Jimmy would add it to his inner collection.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    But the body had its own cultural forms. It had its own art. Executions were its tragedies, pornography was its romance.
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    That was the trouble with Blood and Roses: it was easier to remember the Blood stuff. The other trouble was that the Blood player usually won, but winning meant you inherited a wasteland. This
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