Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse. — Hal Duncan Arses Copy Share Image
“In a spectaculist fabrication, the cardinal rule is Shit Blows Up.” — Hal Duncan Rule Copy Share Image
“Popular and unpopular don’t necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.” — Hal Duncan Popular Copy Share Image
“But functional was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was… — Hal Duncan Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? ” — Hal Duncan Books Copy Share Image
“–I’m not like that, he says. I’m not a … Fairy? –Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of… — Hal Duncan Fairy Copy Share Image
“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a… — Hal Duncan Bad thing Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with… — Hal Duncan Fireworks Copy Share Image
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system. — Hal Duncan Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Ray Bradbury’s entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.” — Hal Duncan Bradbury Copy Share Image
“One can revise the rules, shift the goal posts, but to do so is just to conjure a chimera and mask it… — Hal Duncan Goals Copy Share Image
Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing… — Hal Duncan Books Copy Share Image
“A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking… — Hal Duncan First-lines Copy Share Image
“They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death,… — Hal Duncan Death Copy Share Image
“Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long… — Hal Duncan Fantasy Copy Share Image
“No, we're not prisoners of flesh, I think, bound in our skins, and only waiting for the final judgment that will send… — Hal Duncan Fear Copy Share Image
“Here now, in the elsewhen of the SF Café, we’ve had the shenanigans going on for decades, but we haven’t yet adjusted… — Hal Duncan Fiction Copy Share Image
“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate… — Hal Duncan Fiction Copy Share Image
Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -… — Hal Duncan Abjection Copy Share Image
“A ship with two of every animal in the world, my friend? That would have to be a very large ship indeed.… — Hal Duncan Friendship Copy Share Image
“In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the… — Hal Duncan Barbed wire Copy Share Image
I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc… — Hal Duncan Arcs Copy Share Image
“Standing? says Jak. Ouais, standing, intercrural, AKA the sumata of the Samurai, the Oxford Style , the Princeton First-Year , the Ivy… — Hal Duncan Good enough Copy Share Image
“Susurrus is a different kind of flirt though, fickle as a godling of wind can only be but light and warm as… — Hal Duncan Flirt Copy Share Image
“We are our own worst enemies. How banal and trite that sounds, but [...] have come to believe that all the greatest… — Hal Duncan Learning Copy Share Image
“Susurrus whispers through the grass and gorse, godling of the Martian wind, gene-spliced tyke of Zephyros and Ares. His story needs no… — Hal Duncan God of war Copy Share Image
“I’d take you home with me, see, but two of us in the same Behold? Just wouldn’t work, ends up in all… — Hal Duncan Demons Copy Share Image
“Cause what do groanhuffs know? All’s they’ve done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers,… — Hal Duncan Rumor Copy Share Image
“The quirky flavourings of the idiosyncratic ideologue ultimately drowned in the ketchup of redheaded twins and nipples that go spung.” — Hal Duncan Ideologue Copy Share Image
![“We are our own worst enemies. How banal and trite that sounds, but [...] have come to believe that all the greatest truths are trite and banal, when spoken aloud in their simplest and most honest terms. Perhaps they can only be imparted in the Cant, in a language which writes itself onto your…” quote by Hal Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/105/hal-duncan-11149_learning_we-are-our-own-worst-enemies-how-banal-a_1935295.jpg)
