# Quote — James Morrow, The Wine of Violence

> “As a race of scientists and thinkers,” she concluded, “we cannot claim with absolute certainty that Teot Yon’s personality is now beyond Heaven’s gates or inside Satan’s stewpot or about to enter the embryo of a bull. Some of us subscribe to the Afterworld Hypothesis, some to less cheerful views. We all know that as an empirical event Teot Yon’s existence is over, and it is time for his molecules to become air and ash and after that—where will his drifting pieces go and what new things will they help to form? Let the transformation begin!”

- Author: [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md)
- Book: [The Wine of Violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence.md)
- Page: 234
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#The_Wine_of_Violence_(1981)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence/as-a-race

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> “Zolmec,” said Nazra, “has always taught that the greatest words are ‘I could very well be wrong.’”

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> It was not a question of regressive old ideas versus enlightened new ideas, but of reasonable caution versus arrogant caprice.

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