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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 worst thing for someone else.

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Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
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Glen A. Duncan
Saul Black
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My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.
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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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Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
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Grace only exists to be fallen from.
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The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.
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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 many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.
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I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.
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Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers grace only exists to be fallen from.
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One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
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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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Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
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Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.
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Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.
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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 look up from Cosmo while this sort of thing's going on? Surely you take a Playstation break?
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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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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
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Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.
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Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.
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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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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 she's romantically besotted.
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