# Quote — James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter

> “Pop, do we have heaven?” he’d asked on the day he discovered the (dead) cat. “You want to know a Jew’s idea of heaven?” his father had replied, looking up from his Maimonides. “It’s an endless succession of long winter nights on which we get paid a fair wage to sit in a warm room and read all the books ever written...Not just the famous ones, no, every book, the stuff nobody gets around to reading, forgotten plays, novels by people you never heard of. However, I profoundly doubt such a place exists.”

- Author: [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md)
- Book: [Only Begotten Daughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter.md)
- Page: 13
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/pop-do-we-have

## More from this book

> I think you’re so full of shit you’ve got roses growing out of your ass.

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/i-think-youre.md)

> “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.”

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/myriad-contradictory-worlds.md)

> The Sermon on the Mount—it never ends for you, does it? If somebody kicks your right buttock, turn the other cheek.

p. 260 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/the-sermon-on-the.md)