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• When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

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  Kindness, Kids, People

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.281, Canongate Books

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

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  Life, Mean, Meaningless

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.119, Vintage

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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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  Animal, Sheep, Facts

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

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  Pain, Ideas, Stupidity

  Glen Duncan (2009). “A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel”, Ecco

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• I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

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  Lying, Definitions, Unbearable

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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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  Sibling, Grateful, Long

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.124, Canongate Books

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

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  World, Youth, Egotism

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.133, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Beauty, Thinking, Forgiving

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• I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.

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  Character, People, Devil

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

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  One Day, Extraordinary, Ordinariness

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.155, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

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  Life, Home, Design

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• Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

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  Life, Doe, Plot

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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]

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  Discovery, Lucifer, Darling

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.63, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Worst, Best Things, Worst Things

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.208, Canongate Books

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• One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

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  Optimism, Idiot, Madness

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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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  Sticks, Spontaneous, Strategy

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

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  Differences, Knowing, Making A Difference

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

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  Grace, Hammers, Claws

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.

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  Emotional, Hair, Two

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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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  Religious, Rain, Dark

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.258, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Girl, Years, Three

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Mother, Taken, Forever

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• Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

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  Beautiful, Mean, Animal

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

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  Life, Life Is, Happens

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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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  Flower, Silence, Dying

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