David James Duncan Quotes

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• Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and…
• I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can…
• And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.
• Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal…
• The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.
• You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the…
• When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
• My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
• 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.
• The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
• We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.
• Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought…
• 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…
• Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve…
• But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.
• I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the…
• In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that…
• 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…
• Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a…
• Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is…

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