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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.

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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  1. 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
  2. To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One… Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach. – Thomas Bernhard
  3. They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We’re the United Nations of juvenile delinquents. – Sherman Alexie
  4. The more you read, the harder it is to condemn. – Glen Duncan
  5. Whatever doesn’t kill them, makes them make reality TV shows… – Glen Duncan
  6. 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
  7. All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its…motivation. – Glen Duncan
  8. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  9. You can’t live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it. – Glen Duncan
  10. It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living. – Glen Duncan
  11. You love life because life’s all there is. – Glen Duncan
  12. Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse -“ and the writer’s. – Glen Duncan
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. The first horror is there’s horror. The second is you accommodate it. – Glen Duncan
  17. Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere. – Glen Duncan
  18. The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies. – Glen Duncan
  19. By all means, become an abomination–but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. – Glen Duncan
  20. All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time. – Glen Duncan
  21. It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon. – Glen Duncan
  22. … vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy. – Glen Duncan
  23. 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
  24. Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments. – Glen Duncan
  25. You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others. – Marie Lu
  26. Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty. – Amit Kalantri
  27. Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? – Johnny Rich
  28. Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
  29. Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
  30. If you’re adult enough to have sex, you’re adult enough to talk about your feelings. – Carter Quinn
  31. For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be. – John Connolly
  32. Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  33. Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep. – MR Carey
  34. I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I’d take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room. – Caitln R Kiernan
  35. A -˜white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A -˜black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.* – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  36. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid. – Penn Jillette
  37. The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it’s too easy. – Henry Jenkins
  38. This book is dedicated to all the students I’ve known over the years who’ve taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid. – Dr Kid Brain
  39. A kid of your age-”any kid-”could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to? – Stephen King
  40. Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid. – Dan Alatorre

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