174 Quotes by Glen Duncan

Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.

There's a distinctive aural quality to lies. This didn't have it.

The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy.

God being dead, irony still rollickingly alive...

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

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.

There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.