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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

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.

David James Duncan
Pain, Real, Heart

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 highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

David James Duncan
Soul, Papa, Males
David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.12, Dial Press

--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.

David James Duncan
Crush, Letting Go, Believe

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

David James Duncan
Honesty, Demand, Language
David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.214, Triad Institute, Inc.

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

David James Duncan
Thinking, Honor, Sun
David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.23, Triad Institute, Inc.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

David James Duncan
Book, Flames, Imagination

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
Jesus, Taken, Way
David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.23, Dial Press

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

David James Duncan
Writing, Fiction, Honest
David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.189, Triad Institute, Inc.

Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole.

David James Duncan
Song, Writing, Heart

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