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
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This quote describes the process of change, specifically the process of change that occurs within people as they go through their daily lives. The idea is that we do not immediately and completely change after we make a decision to make a change. Depending on the type of change we make and how we make it, we may sometimes need to be reminded of what we once were and what we still might be. As we strive to make changes in our lives, we often need to be reminded that sometimes the changes that are made are not entirely for the better.

Source: Angels In America

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