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Nothing is the whole story. The self's curse -“ and the writer's.

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

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  2. Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most. – David Nicholls
  3. You can’t live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it. – Glen Duncan
  4. It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living. – Glen Duncan
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. You love life because life’s all there is. – Glen Duncan
  8. 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
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  10. 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
  11. The first horror is there’s horror. The second is you accommodate it. – Glen Duncan
  12. Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere. – Glen Duncan
  13. The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies. – Glen Duncan
  14. By all means, become an abomination–but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. – Glen Duncan
  15. All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its…motivation. – Glen Duncan
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  17. It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon. – Glen Duncan
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  19. Where ever there’s guilt there’s violence, and if guilt is a smell then violence is a taste: strawberries and formaldehyde and ironish blood. – Glen Duncan
  20. I read somewhere that when you’re a kid it’s people’s cruelty that makes you cry, then when you’re an adult it’s their kindness. – Glen Duncan
  21. Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments. – Glen Duncan
  22. The more you read, the harder it is to condemn. – Glen Duncan
  23. Whatever doesn’t kill them, makes them make reality TV shows… – Glen Duncan
  24. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  25. You curse a lot.”???? you – I hardly curse at all. – Tere Michaels
  26. The curse of men can’t make me defiled.I defile myself if I curse men by intention. – Toba Beta
  27. The seasons are colliding together, storms are destroying lives, and love is a dangerous curse.-The Vangeretta Curse – Christina Mobley
  28. Poverty is a curse. Don’t call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty. – Nazmul Ahmed Noyon
  29. Consciousness is the core of humanity. It can be a curse or it can be a cure. Only humanity can decide how to break the curse and be the cure. – Jennifer Ott
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  31. In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. – Ezra Pound
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  33. It is the curse to search you in every person I meet, the curse with no cure – ehddah
  34. Basically, writers write because they have something to say…Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world… – Virginia Alison
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  36. Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it. – Ron Brackin
  37. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
  38. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
  39. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
  40. I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey

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