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Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
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Right before bed, I spend twenty minutes in this place. Then I can sleep.
You mean you simply sit here, staring at everybody's pain? All you do is look at it?
Uh-huh. Just like God.
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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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I've been good, I've been bad—nothing gets her attention. What am I supposed to do, sacrifice a goat?
Perhaps you should start a religion. You know—reveal your mother to the world.
How can I reveal her when I don't know what she's like?
Use your imagination. Everybody else does.
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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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Don't believe everything you hear about hell. Next time you run into some anti-hell propaganda, consider the source.
You inflict eternal punishment on people, Julie countered.
Merely because it's our job. And remember, we persecute only the guilty, which puts us one up on most other institutions.
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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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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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I think you're so full of shit you've got roses growing out of your ass.
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What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.
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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 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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You wouldn't like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.
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James K. Morrow
Born:
March 17, 1947
(age 77)
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