Bed Quote by Glen Duncan

“Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.”

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Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

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“For the longest time the romantic explanation for low rates of female infection endured: Possession of a womb, it was supposed, conferred a gentleness which simply could not bear the viciousness of a lycanthropic heart. Female werewolves, masculine idiocy maintained, must be killing themselves in crazy numbers...It's quite extraordinary, given the wealth of historical evidence to the contrary, how long…

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“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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“The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations.”

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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…

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In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a…

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“The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael”

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One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

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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…

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“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies we 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…

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“Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.”

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“It’s just what you’re stuck with, the lousy furniture you can’t change. The educated me knows hell’s nothing, a fiction I happened to inherit. The other me knows I’m going there. There must be a dozen mes these days, taking turns looking the other way.” “It’s the postmodern solution,” I said. “Controlled multiple personality disorder. Pick a fiction and allocate…

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When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole / And he will eat your mortal soul / so if thou seest the man so thin / pray you don’t see him again / for he is not from world we know / he cometh from far…

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Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

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The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the…

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Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are…

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I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

Linda Ronstadt

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Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge…

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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or…

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“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or…

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“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and listened to music. Outside there were trees, a ditch, a bridge; another parking lot. It was very dark. Maybe the Sasquatch would run out from the woods. Chelsea wouldn’t be afraid. She would calmly watch the Sasquatch jog…

Tao Lin

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but…

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I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

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Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed…

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