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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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• 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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• 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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• Grace only exists to be
  fallen from.

  Glen Duncan

  Grace, Fallen

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

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• 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.

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  Mad, Suffering, World

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.9, 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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• I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.

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  Emotional, Hair, Two

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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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• Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

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  Girl, Years, Three

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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