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What good is it having God for a mother if she never sends you a birthday card?
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
I can’t help suggesting that a God who communicates through leukemia is at best deranged.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
Babies are like kittens, Julie, they grow into something much more sinister.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
I think you’re so full of shit you’ve got roses growing out of your ass.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
When a species fixates on the supernatural, it ceases to mature.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
As with the rest of Phoebe’s species, Julie must not let her become dependent upon supernatural solutions, trading one addiction for another.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
People are always asking, does God exist? Of course she does. The real question: what is she like?
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
The Sermon on the Mount—it never ends for you, does it? If somebody kicks your right buttock, turn the other cheek.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
“You’re not very religious, are you?” said Irene.
“I’m more into gravity.”
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
Better a citizen in hell than a slave in New Jersey.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
The problem is, only a few people get to be scientists. You see the dilemma? Given the choice between a truth they can appreciate and a lie they can live, most people will take you-know-what.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
There are none so blind as those who see angels...None so deaf as those who hear gods.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
You wouldn’t like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
“The universe,” says Wyvern, “is a Ph. D. thesis that God was unable to successfully defend.”
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
Hell was not perfect, but it was paradise compared with New Jersey.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
He smiled. Julie’s wedding, exquisite thought. Would his grandchildren be free of godhead? Was divinity a recessive trait?
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
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.
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
“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.”
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)
“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.”
Only Begotten Daughter (1990)