Scripps Flashcards
1
Q
Religion - Get real
A
‘God should get real. We don’t owe him anything.’
2
Q
Religion - God (“unrequited love”)
A
‘As it is, God’s this massive case of unrequited love. He’s Hector without the motorbike.’
3
Q
Dakin and Scripps - Private
[About God]
A
D: ‘Good thing to say at Cambridge, that…. It’s an angle’
S: ‘No… It’s private.’
D: ‘Fuck private.’
4
Q
Regret - Chapel
A
‘…but the boy I was, kneeling in that cold and empty chapel, that winter morning, fills me now with longing and pity.’
5
Q
Scripps on his belief in God.
A
“I did believe in God. Nobody else does. Like stamp collecting it seems to have gone out…”
6
Q
Scripps on Hector’s education.
A
“Love apart, it’s the only education worth having.”
7
Q
Jesus
A
‘The thing I do for Jesus’
