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Glen Duncan Quotes | Quotes said by Glen Duncan

  • Glen Duncan Quote #1

    ... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and hot in my ear and a note of tenderness was there at the end like a lovely curlicue and I liked him because there was no disguising the honest male gladness that went from his body out to mine.


  • Glen Duncan Quote #2

    ... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #3

    All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #4

    All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #5

    But wulf did what it does: Simply insisted. Simply burned through. Simply defied. The same shrugging, grinning continuance. The nature of life. The nature of the beast.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #6

    By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #7

    Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #8

    Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #9

    Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one.

    Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. 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.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #10

    Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels' recurring mould. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psyche's ghostly script?

  • Glen Duncan Quote #11

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

  • Glen Duncan Quote #12

    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 that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do...
    [Lucifer]

  • Glen Duncan Quote #13

    Full moon rises. You change. You need what you need, so you do what you do. The kill – like the show – must go on.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #14

    Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #15

    How was the light today?”
    “Big. Hot. Yellow-white. The sky’s blue was like a drumbeat. I watched the black tree shadows revolve. When the sun went down it was like someone’s hand was pulling it, very gently. It was soft-edged and orange. The land went purple, then dark blue and grey, then black. Then you opened your eyes.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #16

    Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #17

    I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #18

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

  • Glen Duncan Quote #19

    I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame women.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #20

    If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #21

    If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #22

    It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #23

    It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #24

    It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #25

    It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #26

    Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually...

  • Glen Duncan Quote #27

    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 Quote #28

    Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are made in the locked subconscious, decisions not just on the writing but on the conditions for writing: I resolve on the one story I've never told and lo! Here I sit, holed up in a house that means nothing to me, bone-certain no other places will do. Art, even the humble autobiographer's, invokes occult necessities.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #29

    Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

  • Glen Duncan Quote #30

    The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)

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