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Bongo’s nose is far more intelligent than the rest of him, and I believe it uses his brain primarily as a counterweight).
There are many such brilliant nuggets/ turns of phrase in this book, but this may have been my favorite, written of the protagonist's dog.
“The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses,”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
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