Quotes
Authors
David James Duncan

"Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength."

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.320, Dial Press

David James Duncan

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“A friend tweeted me with 'The Big Freeze.' I don't know about that one. I've got to go home, play around with the kids and figure something out. I'll have one.”
“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”
“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”
“When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.”
“I donâ€™t care about anything but keeping her alive. If itâ€™s a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants. She can have puppies, if thatâ€™s what it takes.”
“The hardest thing about sex scenes is that everybody is a judge. I don't know the last time you murdered somebody or blew anyone's brains out, but everyone has had sex and probably this morning, which means everyone has an opinion on how it should be done.”
“We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to holdâ€”and we do firmly believe and simply confessâ€”that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.”

Source : "Unam sanctam". Papal bull by Pope Boniface VIII, 1302.
“Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.”

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