There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — 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
