# Quote — James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter

> —Then there is the final possibility, my favorite.
>
> —Yes?
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> —The final possibility is that I’m God.
>
> —You’re God?
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> —Just a theory, but the data are provocative. I mean, look at me. Faceless, shapeless, holey, undifferentiated, Jewish, inscrutable...and a hermaphrodite to boot. Years ago, I told you sponges cannot be fatally dismembered, for each part quickly becomes the whole. To wit, I am both immortal and infinite.
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> —You’re God? You’re God herself? You?
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> —The data are provocative.
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> —God is a sponge? A sponge? There’s not much comfort in that.
>
> —Agreed.
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> —Sponges can’t help us.
>
> —Neither can God, as far as I can tell. I’d be happy to see some contrary data.

- 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: 312
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/only-begotten-daughter/then-there-is-the

## 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)