Famous Glen Duncan Quotes
The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.– Glen Duncan
Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.– Glen Duncan
The first horror is there’s horror. The second is you accommodate it.– Glen Duncan
You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn’t. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you’ll find it a room.– Glen Duncan
We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.– Glen Duncan
We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.– Glen Duncan
Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse -“ and the writer’s.– Glen Duncan
I didn’t cry. Real things don’t make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I’m like most civilised humans.– Glen Duncan
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
It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.– Glen Duncan