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• I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

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  Lying, Definitions, Unbearable

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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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• The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

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  Animal, Sheep, Facts

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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 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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  Design, Bears, Should

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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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• 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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  Pain, Ideas, Stupidity

  Glen Duncan (2009). “A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel”, Ecco

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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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  Sibling, Grateful, Long

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.124, Canongate Books

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• The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

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  Firsts, Horror, Accommodate

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.169, Canongate Books

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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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  Art, Lying, Omission

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.86, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

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  Heart, Loving Someone, Laughing

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.64, Canongate Books

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• One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

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  Optimism, Idiot, Madness

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• Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

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  Sticks, Spontaneous, Strategy

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Differences, Knowing, Making A Difference

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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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• Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

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  Loss, Currency

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.143, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

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  Mouths, Bigs, Insects

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• My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

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  Mother, Taken, Forever

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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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  Religious, Rain, Dark

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.258, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Hands, Moved On, Flesh

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.62, Canongate Books

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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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