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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.

— James K. Morrow Towing Jehovah (1994)

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More quotes by James K. Morrow

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

Only Begotten Daughter (1990)

Someday that man will be astonished to discover there’s a whole world marching along outside his buzzing head.

The Wine of Violence (1981)

Every religion says war is evil, but one way or another they end up playing along.

The Wine of Violence (1981)

What enormous potential for intermittent happiness the world offered.

Only Begotten Daughter (1990)

Love does strange things to a man’s sense of proportion, which is why—contrary to rumor—it is by no means the Devil’s least favorite emotion.

Blameless in Abaddon (1996)

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