Glen Duncan Quotes - Page 3

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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.

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  Want Something, Fiction, Entertainment

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• I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

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  People, Progress, Diseased

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.67, Vintage

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• She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

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  Brother, Grief, Mean

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

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  Firsts, Horror, Accommodate

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.169, Canongate Books

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• There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

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  Cancer, Years, Ifs And

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.

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  Mean, Men, Ideas

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

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  Perception, Deeply In Love

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

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  Together, Vices, Perversion

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.95, Vintage

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• Grace only exists to be
  fallen from.

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  Grace, Fallen

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

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• No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

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  Art, Lying, Omission

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.86, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm too conceited for therapy.

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  Conceited, Therapy

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• My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

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  Children, Believe, Parent

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• Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

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  Focus, Achieve, Renounce

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.85, Canongate Books

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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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  Heart, Loving Someone, Laughing

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

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• The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

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  Hands, Moved On, Flesh

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.62, Canongate Books

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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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  Mad, Suffering, World

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

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  Mouths, Bigs, Insects

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

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  Done, Violence, Amount

  Glen Duncan (2012). “Talulla Rising (The Last Werewolf 2)”, p.183, Canongate Books

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• Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

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  Loss, Currency

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.143, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

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  Time, Creation, Property

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

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