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Not a Saint!" Akasha proclaimed, in bricks. "This is the Tomb of God Incarnate!""Always did figure that sucker was dead," muttered Waites. — David James Duncan
When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
— David James Duncan
We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.
— David James Duncan
Besides a Scientist Marion is also a Pacifist and an Atheist. This means she is basically against most things, such as War, Sports, and God.
— David James Duncan
Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.
— David James Duncan
But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.
— David James Duncan
I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.
— David James Duncan
Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
— David James Duncan
I felt a rush of trustfelt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present. — David James Duncan
The crowd-pleasing, pilfered genre had mated with democracy and produced a seemingly invincible bastard: government by force of farce.
— David James Duncan
An eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools.
— David James Duncan
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
— David James Duncan
Your strange!" she gushed. (She meant "You're," but Peter felt absolutely certain that she was one of those people who spell it "Your.")
— David James Duncan
More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less,
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I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.
— David James Duncan
But any gathering of eight human beings has an astounding potential for complication.
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It's strange the way everybody has their own pet notion about Jesus, and nobody's pet notion seems to agree with anybody else's.
— David James Duncan
And like many a Christian before them, they completely forgot that the only sword-shaped weapon Jesus ever actually used was the one He died on.
— David James Duncan
And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.
— David James Duncan
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. - Antonio Porchia
— David James Duncan
I felt free to like all three of these men now, because I'd realized I didn't have to become them.
— David James Duncan
The best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.
— David James Duncan
It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.
— David James Duncan
Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.
— David James Duncan
Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?
— David James Duncan
And onto the screen pops a couple of housewives who start having a poop fit when they see how clean their new dish soap got the dinner plates
— David James Duncan
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
— David James Duncan
I'm back!" he told Life.
— David James Duncan
But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.
— David James Duncan
The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.
— David James Duncan
The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
— David James Duncan
I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.
— David James Duncan
To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.
— David James Duncan
She might be all right, Freddy said. But she sure is dead.
— David James Duncan
Fiction writing feels more honest to me.
— David James Duncan
Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.
— David James Duncan
Him, trying to do the same.
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Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. - overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School
— David James Duncan
This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden.
— David James Duncan