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I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

~Margaret Atwood

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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

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There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

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Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

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People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

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A word after a word after a word is power.

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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 18th, 1939

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