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• The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

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  Grief, Mean, Wrath

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• Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

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  Life, Mean, Meaningless

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.119, Vintage

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• Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

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  Pain, Facts, Dimensions

  Glen Duncan (2009). “A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I think of Adam in those pre-marital days. I know he's your great-to-the-nth-degree-granddad and all - but I'm afraid he was rather an imbecile.

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  Children, Thinking, Hair

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

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  World, Youth, Egotism

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.133, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.

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  Character, People, Devil

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

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  Beauty, Thinking, Forgiving

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• Grace only exists to be
  fallen from.

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  Grace, Fallen

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

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  Together, Vices, Perversion

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.95, Vintage

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• I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

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  Perception, Deeply In Love

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

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  Focus, Achieve, Renounce

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.85, Canongate Books

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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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  Flower, Silence, Dying

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• Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

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  Life, Life Is, Happens

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• Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

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  Life, Home, Design

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• Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

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  Life, Doe, Plot

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• For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do... [Lucifer]

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  Discovery, Lucifer, Darling

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.63, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Worst, Best Things, Worst Things

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.208, Canongate Books

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• Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

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  Grace, Hammers, Claws

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered you, this part of the story, my being there, I mean? What was I doing there? ‘Presume not the ways of God to scan,’ you’ve been told in umpteen variations, ‘the proper study of Mankind is Man.’ Maybe so, but what, excuse me, was the Devil doing in Eden?) I took the forms of animals. I found I could. (That’s generally my reason for doing something, by the way, because I find I can.)

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  Beautiful, Mean, Animal

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Time, Creation, Property

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

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  Children, Believe, Parent

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• Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

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  Cities, Snow, Gestures

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• You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency, liberty over servitude. You can't blame me because you know (come on, man, you've always known) that the idea of spending eternity with nothing to do except praise God is utterly unappealing. You'd be catatonic after an hour. Heaven's a swiz because to get in you have to leave yourself outside. You can't blame me because -- now do please be honest with yourself for once -- you'd have left, too.

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  Mean, Men, Ideas

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

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  One Day, Extraordinary, Ordinariness

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.155, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

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  Cancer, Years, Ifs And

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.16, Canongate Books

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