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Quotes from Towing Jehovah — James K. Morrow

born 1947 United States

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There’s nothing quite so pernicious as wishful thinking.

Towing Jehovah (1994)

Under the midnight sun, despair acquires the intensity of sex, insomnia the vehemence of art.

Towing Jehovah (1994)

That maxim, it’s not an argument against atheism—it’s an argument against foxholes.

Towing Jehovah (1994)

Life’s meaning doesn’t come from God! Life’s meaning comes from life!

Towing Jehovah (1994)

“What’s theodicy?” asked Anthony.
“Hard to explain.”
“Sounds like idiocy.”
“Much of it is.”

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“I don’t see you at Mass anymore.”
“It’s like fucking, Father. You gotta be up for it.”

Towing Jehovah (1994)

Sweetie, if I’ve learned anything during my ten years at sea, it’s this. Never confuse your captain with God.

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Her audacity turned him on. There was nobody quite so arousing, he decided, as a worthy opponent.

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A corpse was far too easy a thing to rationalize. Christianity had been doing it for two thousand years.

Towing Jehovah (1994)

It was the most portentous mission since Saul of Tarsus has suffered an epileptic seizure and called it Christianity.

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“I knew this guy one, a demac on the Amoco Cádiz, dying of bone cancer. You know what he said? ‘When they give you morphine like there’s no tomorrow, there isn’t.’”

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She had long ago accepted the fact that, when it came to the affectations with which radical feminists liked to impoverish their minds—crystal therapy, neo-paganism, Wicca—her skepticism placed her emphatically in a minority.

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Somehow his grandfather had wrought an honorable and glamorous life from the sea. But that era was gone. The system was dying. Advising a young man to join the United States Merchant Marine was like advising him to go into vaudeville.

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To Thomas’s eye, Union Square combined the exoticism of The Arabian Nights with the bedrock banality of American commerce, as if a medieval Persian bazaar had been transplanted to the twentieth century and taken over by Wal-Mart.

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“Another boyfriend?”
“A character in one of my plays. Runkleberg’s my twentieth-century Abraham. One fine morning he’s out watering his roses, and he hears God’s voice telling him to sacrifice his son.”
“Does he obey?”
“His wife intervenes.”
“How?”
“She castrates him with his hedge clippers, and he bleeds to death.”

Towing Jehovah (1994)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James K. Morrow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.