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  1. David James Duncan _ River Teeth

    ...he and Cease were "united by karmic connections so essential to our mutual inner balance that the endless differences of our minds are a constant amusement to us both
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  2. David James Duncan _ River Teeth

    There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind."
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  3. David James Duncan _ River Teeth

    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.
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  4. David James Duncan _ River Teeth

    Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.
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