James K. Morrow Quotes

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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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