"Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe."

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Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.401, Dial Press

David James Duncan

#Summer Quotes #Beach Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.”
“It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.”
“When I look around me, I can't help having faith.”
“A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.”
“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.”
“After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.”
“You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.”
“Thank you for making me nouveau riche.”

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