“I said we aren’t here to fucking like Vietnamese things, we’re here to kill or be killed by them, and telling me to wander around looking for bright sides and good things is like telling me to hurry up and… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Because I wasn’t anything anymore. Not anythingI love or know or care about. Because thou shalt not kill, Kade. Thou shalt not kill. With… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“It was so good to see him in there, yet so funny to find him so much like me, and so tiny. "Nice kingdom… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Papa was no longer fixing a carburetor: he was setting up a greasy little Cuban missile base smack-dab in the middle of Mama’s immaculate… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“The Austrian writer Robert Musil summed up the Fanatic's great rhetorical advantage in just ten words: There is no truth which stupidity can't make… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?” — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Peter didn’t want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.” — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.” — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I’m just saying that his card-burning would have meant far more, on the day he did it, if he hadn’t already incinerated his life.” — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
