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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    The future of women is uncertain. We don't breed in the womb any more, and if we aren't wanted for sex … But there will always be men. Women haven't gone for little boys. Women have a different approach. Surrounded by hunks, they look for 'the ugly man inside'. Thugs and gangsters, rapists and wife-beaters are making a comeback. They may smile like beach-boys, but they are pure shark. So this is the future. F is for Future.
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    I kissed her, and forgot death.
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    Die Wahrheit aber ist, dieses Wäre ist immer nur eine Erfindung. Ich kann nur die Entscheidungen treffen, die ich treffe, warum sich also quälen mit dem, was gewesen wäre, wenn ich doch nur bewältigen kann, was war?" "Die Wäre-Inseln sind für den Menschen unbewohnbar.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    He had the dog on a lead and he was still managing to be a boy with a dog and the dog was still managing to be a dog with a boy because not even a bomb gets to wipe out everything,
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    We were the lucky ones, the notthese, we were the ones who had survived the aerial bombing and fire-clusters, the final flash. Regrettable, unavoidable, a war to end all wars, a war for democracy, a war for freedom, peaceful war. Sometimes war is necessary. Sometimes war is right. But to the broken and the dead, to the wounded and the maimed, to the exploded and the shrapnelshattered, to minds gone dark, to eyes that have seen agony no tears can wash away, it hardly matters that the dead language of war repeats itself through time. The bodies that can say nothing have the last word. What is it - the last word? No.No more war.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    Snow is covering us. Close your eyes and sleep. Close your eyes and dream. This is one story. There will be another.
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning.
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    In my country there are no gods left. The Romans have driven them out. There are some who say that they have hidden themselves in the mountains, but I do not believe it. Three nights I have been on the mountains seeking them everywhere. I did not find them. And at last I called them by their names, and they did not come. I think they are dead.
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  9. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    There are valleys that lead to the bottom of the world, so it seems, but what world is that? The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness. The more sophisticated my equipment, the stranger the worlds it detects. I sometimes think I'm sailing through a vast thought.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion-in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots-apologies there, Spike-but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    You can change everything about yourself - your name, your home, your skin color, your gender, even your parents, your private history - but you can't change the time you were born in, or what it is you will have to live through.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ The Stone Gods

    This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
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