Glen Duncan Quotes

• Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

  Glen Duncan

  Heart, Ego, Judgement

  "Talulla Rising". Book by Glen Duncan, March 21, 2012.

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• You love life because life's all there is.

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  Vida amorosa

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• There is no God and that's His only commandment.

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  There Is No God, Commandments

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.341, Vintage

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• Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.

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  Home, Draws

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

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  Coffee, Aroma, Existence

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.92, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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 to deceive them.

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  Hate, Love You, Secret

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• Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

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  Beautiful, Truth, Ugly

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• I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

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  Should, Know How, Knows

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.279, Canongate Books

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• What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.

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  Sex, Compassion, Desire

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• 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 present miseries.

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  Past, Self, Arguing

  Glen Duncan (2000). “Love remains”

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• Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

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  Beautiful, Butterfly, Mind

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.46, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every present anger derives from past weakness.

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  Anger, Past, Weakness

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

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  Zenith, Bliss, Description

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.257, Vintage

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• Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

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  Falling In Love, Process, Reverse

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books

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• That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

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  Life, Thinking, Alive

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• Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

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  Life, Addiction, Twists

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• This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.

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  Love, Uncles, Reflection

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• 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, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.

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  Struggle, Blame, Adam

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

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  Life, Party, Yarn

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• Lo primero que hay que decir sobre Eva es que fue una gran mejora del diseño de Adán, o que Adán fue una variación extremadamente equivocada del diseño de Eva. (Consideremos los testículos. Dos núcleos concentrados de vulnerabilidad absoluta. ¿Dónde están? Colgando entre las piernas. Me reafirmo).

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  Two, Design, Variation

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

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  Pain, Ideas, Stupidity

  Glen Duncan (2009). “A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel”, Ecco

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• When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

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  Kindness, Kids, People

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.281, Canongate Books

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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 unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.

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  Design, Bears, Should

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• 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.

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  Animal, Sheep, Facts

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

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  Lying, Definitions, Unbearable

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