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  1. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    Baseball -and I mean professional baseball- has got damned near every problem that churches and religion have got.
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  2. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    choke on blood, if I speak. But then words well right up with the blood, I'm helpless to stop them: "I know you hate the mill," I tell him, and tears come the instant I speak. "I know you love baseball, and aren't doing what you want. But at least Vera fights. She says her dopey prayers no matter what!" I lean against the door, gasping for air and strength to finish. "All I want is for you to fight, Papa. To fight to stay alive inside! No matter what.
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  3. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    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.
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  4. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    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.
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. David James Duncan _ The Brothers K

    him, trying to do the same."
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  11. 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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  12. 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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