Famous Glen Duncan Quotes

  • The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies. – Glen Duncan

    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

    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

    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

    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

  • Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse -“ and the writer’s. – 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

    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

    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

    It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.– Glen Duncan