{"author":"Glen Duncan","author_id":"Glen+Duncan","total_quotes":39,"quotes":[{"text":"Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["books","humanity","judgement","literature"],"id":8354,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually...","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["cynical","life-philosophy","truth-of-life"],"id":29977,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"... Vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["vampires"],"id":31633,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["series","boxed","sets "],"id":52288,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["dead","living"],"id":58361,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel,' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["adam","bible","eden","eve","funny"],"id":63237,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["guilt","violence"],"id":65002,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one.Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. 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.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["literature","meaninglessness","plot"],"id":68968,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"Werewolves are not a subject for academe,” she said, “but you know what the professors would be saying if they were. ‘Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them. Species death like this is nothing more than a shift in the aggregate psychic agenda. In ages past the beast in man was hidden in the dark, disavowed. The transparency of modern history makes that impossible: We’ve seen ourselves in the concentration camps, the gulags, the jungles, the killing fields, we’ve read ourselves in the annals of True Crime. Technology turned up the lights and now there’s no getting away from the fact: The beast is redundant. It’s been us all along.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["thriller","werewolves"],"id":76690,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["judgement","reading","reasoning","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":77770,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}