All Glen Duncan Quotes
- I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. Definition
- 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… Best
- 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… Account
- 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… Darling
- 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… Blooming
- The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. Abomination
- You love life because life's all there is. All
- Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus. Achieve
- 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. Already Learned
- 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… Adam
- Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. Beautiful
- I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception. Deeply
- 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… Abomination
- Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process. Fall
- The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it. Accommodate
- 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… All
- Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. Alter
- 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… Absolute
- 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,… Always Known
- 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… Created
- One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as… Absolutely
- Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. Century
- Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to… Age
- We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen. All
- We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field. Age