Smug Ingratitude Quotes by David James Duncan

“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

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

“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

“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

--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

“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

“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

“Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?”

— David James Duncan

“Peter didn’t want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.”

— David James Duncan

“It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.”

— 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

“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