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Not a Saint!" Akasha proclaimed, in bricks. "This is the Tomb of God Incarnate!"
"Always did figure that sucker was dead," muttered Waites. — David James Duncan

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language. — David James Duncan

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence. — David James Duncan

Besides a Scientist Marion is also a Pacifist and an Atheist. This means she is basically against most things, such as War, Sports, and God. — David James Duncan

Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it. — David James Duncan

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches. — David James Duncan

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty. — David James Duncan

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. — David James Duncan

I felt a rush of trust
felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present. — David James Duncan

The crowd-pleasing, pilfered genre had mated with democracy and produced a seemingly invincible bastard: government by force of farce. — David James Duncan

An eye for an eye is smart, see, but love is dumb, lovers are fools. — David James Duncan

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan

Your strange!" she gushed. (She meant "You're," but Peter felt absolutely certain that she was one of those people who spell it "Your.") — David James Duncan

More details explain things more, but less details confuse things less, — David James Duncan

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity. — David James Duncan

But any gathering of eight human beings has an astounding potential for complication. — David James Duncan

It's strange the way everybody has their own pet notion about Jesus, and nobody's pet notion seems to agree with anybody else's. — David James Duncan

And like many a Christian before them, they completely forgot that the only sword-shaped weapon Jesus ever actually used was the one He died on. — David James Duncan

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile. — David James Duncan

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. - Antonio Porchia — David James Duncan

I felt free to like all three of these men now, because I'd realized I didn't have to become them. — 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. — David James Duncan

It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths. — David James Duncan

Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake. — 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

And onto the screen pops a couple of housewives who start having a poop fit when they see how clean their new dish soap got the dinner plates — David James Duncan

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it. — David James Duncan

I'm back!" he told Life. — David James Duncan

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. — 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

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex. — David James Duncan

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 the Bible recommended. — David James Duncan

To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty. — David James Duncan

She might be all right, Freddy said. But she sure is dead. — David James Duncan

Fiction writing feels more honest to me. — David James Duncan

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry. — David James Duncan

Him, trying to do the same. — David James Duncan

Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. - overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School — David James Duncan

This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt in a garden. — David James Duncan