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Glen Duncan quotes: Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him. Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.
Glen Duncan quotes: A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her. A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her.
Glen Duncan quotes: It's why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God. It's not a cry to the Divine, it's a recognition of their own divinity. It's why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God. It's not a cry to the Divine, it's a recognition of their own divinity.
Glen Duncan quotes: I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers. I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.
Glen Duncan quotes: ... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy. ... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.
Glen Duncan quotes: He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough. He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough.
Glen Duncan quotes: For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading. For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.
Glen Duncan quotes: Shoved by shock too young into the truth that nothing meant anything. Shoved by shock too young into the truth that nothing meant anything.
Glen Duncan quotes: The seriousness of madmen is one of the most exhausting realities. The seriousness of madmen is one of the most exhausting realities.
Glen Duncan quotes: There is no God. And that's His only Commandment. There is no God. And that's His only Commandment.
Glen Duncan quotes: Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.
Glen Duncan quotes: Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that. Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.
Glen Duncan quotes: Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to? Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?
Glen Duncan quotes: Hot tip: If you're a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now. Hot tip: If you're a human having a fling with a werewolf, break it off. Now.
Glen Duncan quotes: It's Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon. It's Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.
Glen Duncan quotes: Peace is purchased in the currency of loss. Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.
Glen Duncan quotes: Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
Glen Duncan quotes: The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach. The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.
Glen Duncan quotes: You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body. You don't believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body.
Glen Duncan quotes: What would it be like without Him? What would it be like without Him?
Glen Duncan quotes: It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own. It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.
Glen Duncan quotes: That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do. That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do.
Glen Duncan quotes: Hell [ ... ] is the absence of God and the presence of Time. Hell [ ... ] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.
Glen Duncan quotes: Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes. Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes.
Glen Duncan quotes: Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices. Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.
Glen Duncan quotes: We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen. We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen.
Glen Duncan quotes: The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies. The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.
Glen Duncan quotes: Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain. Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
Glen Duncan quotes: You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it. You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.
Glen Duncan quotes: There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it. There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.
Glen Duncan quotes: Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong. Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.
Glen Duncan quotes: The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective. The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective.
Glen Duncan quotes: I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward. I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward.
Glen Duncan quotes: Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
Glen Duncan quotes: He loved the feel and smell of her palm and because he was one of those men who was always ultimately looking to dissolve himself into a woman. He loved the feel and smell of her palm and because he was one of those men who was always ultimately looking to dissolve himself into a woman.
Glen Duncan quotes: All vampires smoke. Smoking's high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time. All vampires smoke. Smoking's high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.
Glen Duncan quotes: eyes: so transparently enslaved by the soul eyes: so transparently enslaved by the soul
Glen Duncan quotes: He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender. He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender.
Glen Duncan quotes: Yo!" "We good?" "We're good." "Okay. You've broken Mr. Marlowe's window, however." "Apologies, boss. Exuberance. Yo!"
"We good?"
"We're good."
"Okay. You've broken Mr. Marlowe's window, however."
"Apologies, boss. Exuberance.
Glen Duncan quotes: We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else. We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else.
Glen Duncan quotes: The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next. The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.
Glen Duncan quotes: Don't kill me - you fucking cunt.Hot tip. If you're trying to get someone to not kill you, avoid calling him a fucking cunt. Don't kill me - you fucking cunt.
Hot tip. If you're trying to get someone to not kill you, avoid calling him a fucking cunt.
Glen Duncan quotes: (One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. (One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous.
Glen Duncan quotes: No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself. No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.
Glen Duncan quotes: I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress. I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.
Glen Duncan quotes: Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'. Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.
Glen Duncan quotes: Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. Where ever there's guilt there's violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood.
Glen Duncan quotes: The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis. The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.
Glen Duncan quotes: The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze. The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze.
Glen Duncan quotes: Imagination was condemned to make something of things. Imagination was condemned to make something of things.
Glen Duncan quotes: Ironies were like secrets: unshared they died. Ironies were like secrets: unshared they died.
Glen Duncan quotes: You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned. You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned.
Glen Duncan quotes: Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it. Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.
Glen Duncan quotes: You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do. You can't live if you can't accept what you are, and you can't accept what you are if you can't say what you do.
Glen Duncan quotes: Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion. Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.
Glen Duncan quotes: Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.
Glen Duncan quotes: The truth doesn't care what anyone wants. The truth is innocent. You can't blame the truth. The truth doesn't care what anyone wants. The truth is innocent. You can't blame the truth.
Glen Duncan quotes: Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
Glen Duncan quotes: You give thanks for small things. I gave thanks that I was wearing jeans, not a skirt. People start trying to kill you, you stop wearing skirts. You give thanks for small things. I gave thanks that I was wearing jeans, not a skirt. People start trying to kill you, you stop wearing skirts.
Glen Duncan quotes: The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions. The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions.
Glen Duncan quotes: The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?) The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)
Glen Duncan quotes: There's no such thing as evil for its own sake. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}. There's no such thing as evil for its own sake. All evil is motivated - even mine {Lucifer}.
Glen Duncan quotes: My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.
Glen Duncan quotes: I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth. I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.
Glen Duncan quotes: The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy. The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy.
Glen Duncan quotes: But all the while and all the while and all the while the world. But all the while and all the while and all the while the world.
Glen Duncan quotes: I'm too conceited for therapy. I'm too conceited for therapy.
Glen Duncan quotes: Then what happened next happened. Then what happened next happened.
Glen Duncan quotes: She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader. She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.
Glen Duncan quotes: Embrace determinism and you're chained all the way back to the beginning. Of the universe. Of everything. Embrace determinism and you're chained all the way back to the beginning. Of the universe. Of everything.
Glen Duncan quotes: I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.
Glen Duncan quotes: It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina! It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina!
Glen Duncan quotes: I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities. I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.
Glen Duncan quotes: Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
Glen Duncan quotes: We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
Glen Duncan quotes: I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.
Glen Duncan quotes: Fuck the miracle of life, where do I sign up for a hysterectomy? Fuck the miracle of life, where do I sign up for a hysterectomy?
Glen Duncan quotes: Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus. Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.
Glen Duncan quotes: Speaking was temporarily beyond him, what with the testicular trauma and ass-stabbing. Speaking was temporarily beyond him, what with the testicular trauma and ass-stabbing.
Glen Duncan quotes: When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else. When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else.
Glen Duncan quotes: You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room. You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.
Glen Duncan quotes: Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses... Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses...
Glen Duncan quotes: I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room. I counted seventy-three shades of grey in an eight-by-ten room.
Glen Duncan quotes: You have a good cry, lovey, you'll feel better afterwards. You did feel better afterwards, but as if you'd conned yourself, fobbed yourself off. You have a good cry, lovey, you'll feel better afterwards. You did feel better afterwards, but as if you'd conned yourself, fobbed yourself off.
Glen Duncan quotes: One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
Glen Duncan quotes: I am a man of lost faiths. I am a man of lost faiths.
Glen Duncan quotes: She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it. She hated the predictability of herself, but knew life probably wouldn't be long enough for her to grow out of it.
Glen Duncan quotes: Grace only exists to be fallen from. Grace only exists to be
fallen from.
Glen Duncan quotes: There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?' There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'
Glen Duncan quotes: My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of Godthen having it taken away, forever. My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever.
Glen Duncan quotes: With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world. With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.
Glen Duncan quotes: But what's heartbreak? A feeling. I've had it with feelings, even if they haven't had it with me. But what's heartbreak? A feeling. I've had it with feelings, even if they haven't had it with me.
Glen Duncan quotes: She revisited sex now as a ruined project she couldn't entirely give up on. She revisited sex now as a ruined project she couldn't entirely give up on.
Glen Duncan quotes: When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
Glen Duncan quotes: I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans. I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.
Glen Duncan quotes: This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS. This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS.
Glen Duncan quotes: Reader, I ate him. Reader, I ate him.
Glen Duncan quotes: You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'?What?So that the audience would know it wasn't. You know why they invented the phrase 'case closed'?
What?
So that the audience would know it wasn't.
Glen Duncan quotes: Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows ... Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows ...
Glen Duncan quotes: He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually. He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.

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