Glen Duncan Quotes

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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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  Heart, Ego, Judgement

  "Talulla Rising". Book by Glen Duncan, March 21, 2012.

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• You love life because life's all there is.

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  Love Life

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• There is no God and that's His only commandment.

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  There Is No God, Commandments

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.341, Vintage

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• Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.

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  Home, Draws

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

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  Coffee, Aroma, Existence

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.92, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

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  Hate, Love You, Secret

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• Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Ugly

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• I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

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  Should, Know How, Knows

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.279, Canongate Books

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• What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.

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  Sex, Compassion, Desire

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• Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

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  Cities, Snow, Gestures

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

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  Falling In Love, Process, Reverse

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books

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• That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

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  Life, Thinking, Alive

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• This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.

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  Love, Uncles, Reflection

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• Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

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  Life, Addiction, Twists

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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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  Struggle, Blame, Adam

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Past, Self, Arguing

  Glen Duncan (2000). “Love remains”

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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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  Beautiful, Butterfly, Mind

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.46, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every present anger derives from past weakness.

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  Anger, Past, Weakness

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.31, Canongate Books

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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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  Zenith, Bliss, Description

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.257, Vintage

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• Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

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  Life, Party, Yarn

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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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  Two, Design, Variation

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

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  Grief, Mean, Wrath

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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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  Children, Thinking, Hair

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.

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  Design, Bears, Should

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

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  Pain, Facts, Dimensions

  Glen Duncan (2009). “A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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