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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
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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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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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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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Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.
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Grace only exists to be fallen from.
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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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Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers grace only exists to be fallen from.
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Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
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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 is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.
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Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
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The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)
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Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.
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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
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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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One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
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I'm too conceited for therapy.
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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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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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