I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it. Glen Duncan More Quotes by Glen Duncan More Quotes From Glen Duncan Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus. Glen Duncan renounce achieve focus This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains. Glen Duncan uncles reflection love One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy. Glen Duncan optimism idiot madness Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot. Glen Duncan twists addiction life Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong. Glen Duncan draws home I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in. Glen Duncan emotional hair two What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition. Glen Duncan compassion desire sex Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith. Glen Duncan zenith description bliss My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever. Glen Duncan taken mother forever Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain. Glen Duncan dimensions pain facts One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death. Glen Duncan ordinariness extraordinary one-day Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad. Glen Duncan mad suffering world Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie. Glen Duncan plot doe life 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 kindness kids people Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. Glen Duncan sibling grateful long I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live. Glen Duncan know-how should knows I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress. Glen Duncan diseased progress people If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction. Glen Duncan entertainment want-something fiction I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it. Glen Duncan design should bears Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion. Glen Duncan perversion vices together
