"Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?Mormon Mother: ..." - Tony Kushner

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?Mormon Mother: 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 and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they 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! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching. Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.Harper: That's how people change.

— Tony Kushner
Playwright and screenwriter

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Tony Kushner was a contemporary American playwright and screenwriter. Anthony Robert Kushner is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Among his stage work, he is most known for Angels in America, which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, as well as its subsequent acclaimed HBO miniseries of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia →

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Change — Embracing transformation, growth, and new beginnings
God — Spiritual reflections on the divine, faith, and creation

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