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. (Glen Duncan)
Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. View quote
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Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from. View quote
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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]. View quote
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Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus. View quote
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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. View quote
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The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it. (Glen Duncan)
Peace is purchased in the currency of loss. View quote
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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully. View quote
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You love life because life's all there is. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception. View quote
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I'm too conceited for therapy. View quote
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My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. View quote
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If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction. View quote
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If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it. View quote
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We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen. (Glen Duncan)
We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field. View quote
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The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation. View quote
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Reader, I ate him. View quote
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Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time. View quote
Glen Duncan

Glen Duncan

Occupation: British Author
Born: October 17, 1965
Quotes count: 27

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