James K. Morrow Short Quotes

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Better a citizen in hell than a slave in New Jersey.

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Maybe I'll end up on the fun side of her pants some day.

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When a species fixates on the supernatural, it ceases to mature.

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My spirits rose: I could see the photon at the end of the tunnel.

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Hell was not perfect, but it was paradise compared with New Jersey.

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What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.

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You're not very religious, are you? said Irene.
I'm more into gravity.

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Those who can kill themselves do, and those who can't, teach philosophy.

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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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You wouldn't like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.

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Babies are like kittens, Julie, they grow into something much more sinister.

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What good is it having God for a mother if she never sends you a birthday card?

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Curse God, and die. To George it seemed like remarkably sage and relevant advice.

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There are none so blind as those who see angels... None so deaf as those who hear gods.

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The universe, says Wyvern, is a Ph. D. thesis that God was unable to successfully defend.

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I can't help suggesting that a God who communicates through leukemia is at best deranged.

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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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People are always asking, does God exist? Of course she does. The real question: what is she like?

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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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Gravestones, he knew, were educational media, teaching that life has limits: don't set your sights too high.

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The Sermon on the Mount—it never ends for you, does it? If somebody kicks your right buttock, turn the other cheek.

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He smiled. Julie's wedding, exquisite thought. Would his grandchildren be free of godhead? Was divinity a recessive trait?

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A golden age, Londa calls it. She hopes it will return.
Golden ages rarely return, I said especially if they never existed.

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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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Be sure to convict that chucklehead. He thinks a country's Christianity is measured by the size of its thermonuclear arsenal.

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