"The bad thing about falling into pieces is……" — David James Duncan
"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"
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28 Quotes by David James Duncan
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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…
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I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a…
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And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.
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Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world…
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The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual…
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You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out…
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When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
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My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
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Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the…
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The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
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We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.
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Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to…
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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