Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
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Neal Stephenson
There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.
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Tomson Highway
So when we say to ourselves, or to others, 'You should obey God, ' what we mean is 'We want what God deserves (your obedience) and we want what is best for you (your obedience).
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Andrew T. Walker
Being creatures means that we cannot re-create ourselves in any fashion or form that we desire by a simple act of the will or the complex work of a surgeon. When we as creatures reject the Creator's blueprint, we are both rebelling against the natural...
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Andrew T. Walker
She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.
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Emma Cline
More Quotes By Diane Setterfield
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born.. Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out...
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more...
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
