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Angels in America: A Celebration
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See also:
Casserole Myth: Religious Motif and Inclusivity in Angels in America
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"America has rediscovered itself. Its sacred position among nations…. This is a great thing. Truth restored, law restored.”
"I'm a Mormon.”
"I'm a homosexual.”
"In my church, we don't believe in homosexuals.”
"In my church, we don't believe in Mormons.”
"Does it make any difference that I might be one thing deep within? No matter how wrong or ugly that thing is, so long as I have fought with everything I have to kill it?”
"When you pray, what do you pray for?”
"I pray for God to crush me, break me up into little pieces and start all over
again.”
"Please don't pray for that.”
"This is the truth. I knew this when I married you. I’ve known this for as long as I’ve known anything. But I thought that with enough will and effort I could change myself. But I can’t!”
"Greetings, Prophet. The Great Work begins. The messenger has arrived... . American Prophet, tonight you become American eye that pierceth dark... . Now, remove from their hiding place the sacred prophetic implements... . Peep stones. Open me, Prophet. I, I, I am the book. Read. ”
"I can't believe I spent three weeks in bed with a Mormon.”
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not
a cult.”
"Any religion that isn't at least 2,000 years old is a cult.”
"So the fruity underwear you wear...”
"Temple garment.”
"Oh, my God. What's it for?”
"Protection. Second Skin. I can stop wearing it.”
"How can you stop wearing if it's a skin?”
"You have to reconcile yourself to the world's imperfectability.
Be in the world, but not of the world. That's what being a Mormon is.”
"That's what being a schizophrenic is.”
"In your experience of the world, how do people change?”
"Well, it has something to do with God, so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly. Then plunges a huge, filthy hand in. He grabs hold of your bloody tubes. You slip to evade his grasp, but he squeezes hard. He insists. He pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out. And the pain… I can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back… dirty, tangled, torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.
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"170 years ago, which is recent, an angel of God appeared to Joseph Smith in upstate New York, not far from here. People have visions.”
"That's preposterous.”
"It is not polite to call other people's beliefs preposterous.”
"I migrated across the breath of the Continent of North America. I came all this way to get away from...”
"The Judgment Day. Everyone will see things. Sick men will see angels. Women who have houses will sell their houses. Dime-store dummies will rear-up on their wood-putty legs and roam the land, looking for brides.”
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