Glen Duncan Quotes

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Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

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You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

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With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

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Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

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Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.

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Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

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One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

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Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

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No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

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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.

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Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

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Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

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Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

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Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

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The rain's been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding. Surely you lot look up from Cosmo while this sort of thing's going on? Surely you take a Playstation break?

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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

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Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

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When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I think of Adam in those pre-marital days. I know he's your great-to-the-nth-degree-granddad and all - but I'm afraid he was rather an imbecile.

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One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

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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.

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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.

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The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)

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I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.

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For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do...
Lucifer speaking

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The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

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Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

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Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

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