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Babies are like kittens, Julie, they grow into something much more sinister.
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Myriad contradictory worlds, lectured Professor Jerome Delacato, forever splitting off from each other like branches on a tree, so that, somewhere out there, I am presently giving a lecture explaining how the many-worlds hypothesis cannot possibly be true.
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Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read. Is there any creature more desirable than a damsel in intellectual distress?
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Ah, yes, the spiritual realm. In those days spiritual was my least favorite word. It still is.
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Actually, the answer's quite simple. Two red eyes floated in the mist.
Really? Tell me. Why does God allow evil?
The red eyes vanished, leaving only the lantern and the night. Because power corrupts, said Wyvern's disembodied voice. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Better a citizen in hell than a slave in New Jersey.
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To George, Overwhite still seemed like a windbag, but he was obviously a resourceful and intelligent one, a windbag woven of the finest material.
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Gravestones, he knew, were educational media, teaching that life has limits: don't set your sights too high.
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If Western Europe and the United States committed seven billion dollars annually to the cause of clean drinking water worldwide, that investment would save four thousand lives a day...
Seven billion dollars. That's less than what Europeans spend each year for perfume and Americans for cosmetic surgery. Before he went to the gallows, Enoch Anthem spoke often about Christ turning water into wine, but he never once implored Christendom to turn perfume into water.
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You wouldn't like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.
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The undergraduates lamented the high price of textbooks and the equally outrageous fact that they were expected to read them.
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The labels fascinated Julie—Cutty Sark, Dewar's, Beefeater—each logo dense with staid print and Anglo-Saxon dignity, as if alcohol were really a type of literary criticism and not a leading cause of traffic fatalities and brain rot.
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What most people don't realize is that something unprecedented has entered the world. Bang—science—and suddenly a proposition is true because it's true, Julie, not because its adherents have the biggest churches or the grandest inquisitors or the most weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.
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The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.
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For moral reasons, the young Reverend Peter Sparrow declined to join the Saturday night gatherings of the Erebus Poker Club. Gambling, he knew, was Satan's third favorite pastime, after sex and ecumenicalism.
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My spirits rose: I could see the photon at the end of the tunnel.
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She asked, Do you believe science has all the answers?
Huh?
Science. Does it have all the answers?
Everybody thinks he's being oh-so-deep when he says science doesn't have all the answers.
Done. All of it. Virginity gone, flesh ratified, mother spited, mission discovered—the gospel of empirical truth! Yes! Oh, yes!
Science does have all the answers, said Howard, withdrawing. The problem is that we don't have all the science.
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I know the God hypothesis has its partisans, but, oh, what a boring idea. Where did the universe come from? He did it. How do we account for rivers and rocks and ring-tailed lemurs? He made them. Ho-hum.
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What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.
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I think you're so full of shit you've got roses growing out of your ass.
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The state flower of New Jersey is the common violet, she explained, smirking, the state bird is the eastern goldfinch, and the state fragrance is unrefined petroleum.
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Many are the consolations of literature, and not the least such solace occurs when an annoyingly virtuous hero succumbs to carnal temptation.
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Now we're getting somewhere, George told himself, although he sensed that this situation would not endure.
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The man was fat. His belly arrived like an advance guard, heralding the bulk to come, huge shoulders, a surplus chin. His white cassock had settled over his body like a tarpaulin dropped on a blimp.
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As with the rest of Phoebe's species, Julie must not let her become dependent upon supernatural solutions, trading one addiction for another.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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James K. Morrow
Born:
March 17, 1947
(age 77)
Bio:
James Morrow is an American novelist and short-story writer known for filtering large philosophical and theological questions through his satiric sensibility.
Known for:
Towing Jehovah (1994)
The Last Witchfinder (2006)
This is the Way the World Ends (1986)
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
Blameless in Abaddon (1996)
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