Glen Duncan Quotes

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• Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.
• Every present anger derives from past weakness.
• When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
• Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.
• I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.....
• I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.
• If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
• 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…
• 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…
• Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.
• No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
• I'm too conceited for therapy.
• My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.
• 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…
• Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.
• 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…

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