Book Quote by David James Duncan

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“My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.”

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“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 all my heart I believed this. And I killed. So what am I now? And why should I live? How am I even alive? Because if this is what our lives are--if doing this to others…

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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 not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes…

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“It was so good to see him in there, yet so funny to find him so much like me, and so tiny. "Nice kingdom you got here," I added, laughing again. "But it didn't feel quite right without you. Or should I say, without me?" This time he laughed too, and though there were no bubbles or sound I could…

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“Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all…

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--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of…

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“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…

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“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…

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

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

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

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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 principles.

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“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.”

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