Top 25 Quotes About Crake

#1. He doesn't know what is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him it he looks at it too clearly.

Margaret Atwood

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#2. I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

Jeff Weiner

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#3. You alright?' Frey asked him. Crake gave him an accusing glare. 'I thought I'd given up all dignity long ago when I joined this crew,' he said. 'But this? This is a new low, Frey.'
'It's character-building,' said Frey.

Chris Wooding

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#4. Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

Bill Maher

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#5. There were signs and I missed them. For instance, Crake said once, "Would you kill someone you loved to spare them pain?" "You mean, commit euthanasia?" said Jimmy. "Like putting down your pet turtle?" "Just tell me," said Crake.
"I don't know. What kind of love, what kind of pain?

Margaret Atwood

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#6. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake's view. Next they'd be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war.

Margaret Atwood

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#7. Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

Abby May Alcott

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#8. The cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.

Arthur Koestler

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#9. Yes, good, kind Crake. Please stop singing or I can't go on with the story.

Margaret Atwood

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#10. The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Leo Tolstoy

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#11. 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.

Margaret Atwood

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#12. It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

Jay-Z

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#13. It was Crake preserving his dignity, because the alternative would have been losing it.

Margaret Atwood

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#14. Those walls and bars are there for a reason," said Crake. "Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases." "Them?" "Nature and God." "I thought you didn't believe in God," said Jimmy. "I don't believe in Nature either," said Crake. "Or not with a capital N.

Margaret Atwood

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#15. If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

Tupac Shakur

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#16. they think there's an invisible entity called Fuck. A helper of Crake's in time of need. And of Jimmy's, because they heard him saying Oh fuck. I'm with them. Fuck! An invisible entity! A helper in time of need! Dead right! They

Margaret Atwood

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#17. I eye the three of them, considering. They'll need a lesson in discretion before I go. Not a lethal lesson. Mom wouldn't like that.

Eliza Crewe

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#18. The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.

Margaret Atwood

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#19. So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.

Margaret Atwood

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#20. Arboreal, a fine word. Our arboreal ancestors, Crake used to say. Used to shit on their enemies from above while perched in trees. All planes and rockets and bombs are simply elaborations on that primate instinct.

Margaret Atwood

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#21. Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

Margaret Atwood

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#22. On reflection,' Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, 'this wasn't one of your better plans.

Chris Wooding

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#23. Watch out for the leaders, Crake used to say. First the leaders and the led, then the tyrants and the slaves, then the massacres. That's how it's always gone.

Margaret Atwood

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#24. 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 ...

Margaret Atwood

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#25. Wouldn't it be amazing, getting up everyday and playing; doing something that you love to do?

Sidney Crosby

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