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.

James K. Morrow


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[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.

James K. Morrow

Tags: real-life literature



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...God's penis would still rank high among those vistas a priest and a nun could not comfortably share.

James K. Morrow


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Ockham's disposable razors

James K. Morrow


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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

James K. Morrow


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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?

James K. Morrow


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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.

James K. Morrow


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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.

James K. Morrow


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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.

James K. Morrow

Tags: humor fighting medieval renaissance



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There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

James K. Morrow

Tags: atheists foxholes



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