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From Quotes by Glen Duncan
- Every present anger derives from past weakness.
- 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…
- Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking…
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