Quotes by David James Duncan

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 a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. “Let it go, Kade,” he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. “Open your fists,” he said, “and let go of the coals.

Believe

Crush

Letting Go

… the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Allure

Dream

Way

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

Bags

Heart

Love

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material – awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless – for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

Men

Solitude

Water

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 to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

Brave New World

Religious

Self

As 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 very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.

Evil

Goal

Jesus

At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn’t miserable anymore: I wasn’t anything at all. I was a nothing– a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn’t know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold.

Heart

Pain

Real

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Causes

Church

Needs

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

Lovers

May

World

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.

Compromise

Ecosystems

Environmental

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Delightful

Demand

Doubt

Dream

Ecosystems

Environment

Environmental

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Fall

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Flames

Frustration

Goal

Grace

Grateful

Heart

Honest

Honesty

Honor

Hurt

Ignorance

Imagination

Jesus

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Quotes by David James Duncan

David James Duncan

… the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material – awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless – for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

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.

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