"To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body."

-- Gretel Ehrlich

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“And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.”

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“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.”
“Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.”
“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”
“Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?”
“The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.”
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.”
“Another big promise Donald Trump made during the campaign - cutting taxes. But there's some confusion over how much he wants to cut.”

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