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I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

Glen Duncan

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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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Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. 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 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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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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Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.
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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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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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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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Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.
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Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.
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Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.
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I'm too conceited for therapy.
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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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Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.
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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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No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.
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Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers grace only exists to be fallen from.
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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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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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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
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