All MARGARET ATWOOD Quotes about “Jimmy”

“But the adjectives change,â€ said Jimmy. â€œNothingâ€™s worse than last yearâ€™s adjectives.”
“But the adjectives change,â€ said Jimmy. â€œNothingâ€™s worse than last yearâ€™s adjectives.”
“Those walls and bars are there for a reason,â€ said Crake. â€œNot to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.â€ â€œThem?â€ â€œNature and God.â€ â€œI thought you didnâ€™t believe in God,â€ said Jimmy. â€œI donâ€™t believe in Nature either,â€ said Crake. â€œOr not with a capital N.”
“Those walls and bars are there for a reason,â€ said Crake. â€œNot to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.â€ â€œThem?â€ â€œNature and God.â€ â€œI thought you didnâ€™t believe in God,â€ said Jimmy. â€œI donâ€™t believe in Nature either,â€ said Crake. â€œOr not with a capital N.”
“Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.”
“Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.”
“Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.”
“Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.”
“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.”
“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.”

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