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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.

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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  1. 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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  3. To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One… Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach. – Thomas Bernhard
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  5. Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame! – Israelmore Ayivor
  6. People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people. – Mira Grant
  7. We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we’re wrong. Someone we trust. – Rachel Cohn
  8. Well I won’t argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for. – Oscar Wilde
  9. Don’t argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves. – Winston Churchill
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  11. In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another. – JRR Tolkien
  12. In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past. – William Henry Hudson
  13. You can’t live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it. – Glen Duncan
  14. It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living. – Glen Duncan
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. You love life because life’s all there is. – Glen Duncan
  18. Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse -“ and the writer’s. – Glen Duncan
  19. 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
  20. The first horror is there’s horror. The second is you accommodate it. – Glen Duncan
  21. Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere. – Glen Duncan
  22. The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies. – Glen Duncan
  23. By all means, become an abomination–but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. – Glen Duncan
  24. All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its…motivation. – Glen Duncan
  25. All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time. – Glen Duncan
  26. 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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  29. 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
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  31. The more you read, the harder it is to condemn. – Glen Duncan
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  38. Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won`t even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. – Helen Rowland
  39. Love doesn’t measure that way… you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn’t fair to blame me for how you’ve chosen to behave. – Kristin Cashore
  40. When in doubt about who’s to blame. Blame the English. – Craig Ferguson

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