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  1. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    This was what Joon thought Christianity meant! Food and medicine for the body, and stories for the heart if you begged for them. Then he came here, found a country full of people begging not to hear the stories, went to seminary, and found out why. No food. No medicine. No doing unto others. Just a bunch of men learning how to bellow the stories at others whether they wanted to hear them or not!
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  2. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    Cause I'm a Christian. Or was. And Christ's love doesn't work, is what we feel in the Army. That kind of shit gets you killed here, it's an eye for an eye here, if Christ's love was real this whole war couldn't be happening.
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  3. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    but Mama was so mad at the insurance company that even though he used words like "flaming assholes" she didn't realize till later that he was cussing: she said she thought he was quoting the Psalms.
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  4. David James Duncan _ The River Why

    Because sometimes happy songs will make sad people miserable, because they feel guilty that they aren't happy, on top of the sadness. But a sad song talks to the part that hurts, says, Yeah I know, yeah it's bad, yeah it hurts: but I'm with you. I feel it too.
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  5. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    Sister Durrel is so beautiful compared to everything else at Sabbath school it's like my eyeballs turn into compass needles, and she's North.
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  6. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

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

    him, trying to do the same."
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  8. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    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.
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  9. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    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
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  10. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    He's just like me,' I think, amazed despite the pain. 'He's just a grownup boy, stuck in a body, stuck in a life. And his life isn't working. It's not working at all. And he's got no father, his mother can't understand, he's go no one to help him fix it.'Feeling this, knowing it, I turn and try to hold my father, as he's so often held me. He makes a small rasping sound when my arms slide round him, then wraps me up, very gently, and holds me back. He says nothing more, but I feel his broken breath, his broken love, his fear and heartbeat.
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  11. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    Say what you want about Hitler, but he trained killers. You train kids in their early years and you can do anything you want with that child. -Sparky Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers, trying to explain why he prefers younger ballplayers
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  12. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    When Peter renounced the world he grew up in and the people he grew up with, I believe it was exactly as heroic as that of a person who, finding himself prone to violent seasickness, renounces yachting. Hell, Pete was hardly 'in the world' in the first place. That was just the problem. He knew more about 13th century Sufi Orders and the Ptolemaic Universe than the rivers and hills and sewers and mills in southwestern Washington.
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