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No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

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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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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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Grace only exists to be fallen from.
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