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Glen Duncan Quotes

I’m too conceited for therapy Picture Quote #1

I’m an American. We’re a people diseased with progress Picture Quote #1

Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don’t belong Picture Quote #1

You love life because life’s all there is Picture Quote #1

I haven’t won any prizes or had any best sellers Picture Quote #1

I’m in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception Picture Quote #1

You had me at hello - Love Quotes

When I first saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew - William Shakespeare Quotes

I’ll tell you something,’ she said. ‘I’m not sure I ever really liked him.’ Adam?’ I said. ‘I don’t blame you.’ ‘Not Adam,’ she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. ‘God Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Literature is humanity’s broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It’s humanity without the judgement Picture Quote #1

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You don't need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely - Love Quotes

A year from now you'll wish you started today - Work Quotes

Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we’re all locked into the body; we can’t escape it Picture Quote #1

The pornologue’s mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions are asked, where her history evaporates, where her self bleeds painlessly into the void Picture Quote #1

That’s the problem with being alive ... You’ve got to keep thinking of what to do Picture Quote #1

The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go Picture Quote #1

I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don’t believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it Picture Quote #1

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don’t belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write Picture Quote #1

And then you meet one person and your life changes forever - Love Quotes

Dogs teach us a lot of things but none more important than to love unconditionally - Dog Quotes

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath Picture Quote #1

We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field Picture Quote #1

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much Picture Quote #1

I don’t think things happen for a reason, but I think it’s perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully Picture Quote #1

Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents Picture Quote #1

I’m not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all Picture Quote #1

A true friend is someone who accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future - Friend Quotes

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars - Motivational Quotes

Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you can’t reach it. It might as well be a great white shark. There is no sitting down and discussing Proust with it, which the traditional vampire model seems to leave room for. You can have a conversation Picture Quote #1

For a long time, I’d wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents’ reading Picture Quote #1

It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina! Picture Quote #1

Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English Picture Quote #1

The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves Picture Quote #1

He loved the feel and smell of her palm and because he was one of those men who was always ultimately looking to dissolve himself into a woman Picture Quote #1

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I’m too conceited for therapy (Glen Duncan Quotes) I’m an American. We’re a people diseased with progress (Glen Duncan Quotes) Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don’t belong. (Glen Duncan Quotes) You love life because life’s all there is (Glen Duncan Quotes) I haven’t won any prizes or had any best sellers (Glen Duncan Quotes) I’m in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception (Glen Duncan Quotes) I’ll tell you something,’ she said. ‘I’m not sure I ever really liked him.’ Adam?’ I said. ‘I don’t blame you.’ ‘Not Adam,’ she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. ‘God (Glen Duncan Quotes) 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? (Glen Duncan Quotes) 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 (Glen Duncan Quotes) 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 Quotes) You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference (Glen Duncan Quotes) 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 (Glen Duncan Quotes) Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we’re all locked into the body; we can’t escape it. (Glen Duncan Quotes) The pornologue’s mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions are asked, where her history evaporates, where her self bleeds painlessly into the void. (Glen Duncan Quotes) That’s the problem with being alive ... You’ve got to keep thinking of what to do. (Glen Duncan Quotes) The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go. (Glen Duncan Quotes) I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don’t believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it. (Glen Duncan Quotes) As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don’t belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write. (Glen Duncan Quotes) The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. (Glen Duncan Quotes) We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field. (Glen Duncan Quotes) Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much (Glen Duncan Quotes) I don’t think things happen for a reason, but I think it’s perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. (Glen Duncan Quotes) Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents. (Glen Duncan Quotes) I’m not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all. (Glen Duncan Quotes) Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you can’t reach it. It might as well be a great white shark. There is no sitting down and discussing Proust with it, which the traditional vampire model seems to leave room for. You can have a conversation. (Glen Duncan Quotes) For a long time, I’d wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents’ reading. (Glen Duncan Quotes) It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina! (Glen Duncan Quotes) Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English (Glen Duncan Quotes) The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves (Glen Duncan Quotes) He loved the feel and smell of her palm and because he was one of those men who was always ultimately looking to dissolve himself into a woman (Glen Duncan Quotes)

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