Top 42 James K. Morrow Quotes
#2. The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow.
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#3. The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx
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The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia ...
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#4. One day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.
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#5. Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with - this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.
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#6. Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.
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#7. Be happy to, I said, cringing to hear such a dumb, folksy locution escape my lips, then launched into my well-rehearsed precis. The fact that humankind now finds itself in a post-Darwinian epistemological condition, I explained, need not trouble us from an ethical perspective.
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#8. The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.
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#9. There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.
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#11. The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn.
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#12. Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.
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#13. If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don't know what does.
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#14. We need to keep domesticating religion. It's such an unpredictable beast.
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#15. The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.
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#16. There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
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#17. At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife.
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#18. This was not a just war after all - it was just a war: yet another exercise in consecrated barbarity and sanctified slaughter.
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#19. All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.
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#20. Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.
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#21. Sleep well, gentlemen, for tomorrow we become connoisseurs of shite.
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#22. If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.
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#23. At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.
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#24. Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read.
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#25. The sea is a dangerous place for a woman," said Mr. Chadwick, nodding. "So is dry land," said Chloe.
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#26. I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?
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#27. God's penis would still rank high among those vistas a priest and a nun could not comfortably share.
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#28. The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibliographic forces; the agent in question never doubts that his authorship is authentic.
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#29. WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH.
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#30. 4091 East Olympic Boulevard proved to be a nondescript one-storey sandstone building of the sort you drive blithely by every day, knowing it's full of paper-pushers and clock-watchers, and nobody's in there writing a symphony or taming a lion or having an orgasm.
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#31. Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.
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#32. You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence, being but Desires of the Mind.
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#33. Alas, for all my knowledge and my skill, The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still, And yet I shan't persuade myself that I Must bow before a supernatural will.
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#34. Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.
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#35. A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants.
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#36. A universe without coincidence would be an exceedingly strange place xxx
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#37. Abide with me, fleshling, and I shall teach you to run with the fluxions.
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#38. Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
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#39. Unless I miss my guess, Yolly is about to become obsessed with horses. It's practically a stage on Piaget's developmental profile.
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#40. They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them.
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#41. Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?
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#42. Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances,
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