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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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• She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

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  Brother, Grief, Mean

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

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  Children, Believe, Parent

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• I'm too conceited for therapy.

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  Conceited, Therapy

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

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  People, Progress, Diseased

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.67, Vintage

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• If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

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  Want Something, Fiction, Entertainment

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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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