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1 " You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it. "
― Glen Duncan , The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf #1)
2 " 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. "
3 " You love life because life's all there is. "
4 " 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. "
5 " The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it. "
6 " Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere. "
7 " By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. "
8 " All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation. "
9 " 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. "
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems. "
13 " Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are made in the locked subconscious, decisions not just on the writing but on the conditions for writing: I resolve on the one story I've never told and lo! Here I sit, holed up in a house that means nothing to me, bone-certain no other places will do. Art, even the humble autobiographer's, invokes occult necessities. "
14 " I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt like it you'd learn deceit too. Biology is destiny. You can't blame women. "
15 " I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live..... "
16 " She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. "
17 " Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them. "
18 " I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward. "
19 " Don't kill me—you fucking cunt.Hot tip. If you're trying to get someone to not kill you, avoid calling him a fucking cunt. "
20 " Plus there was the standard French insult of ignoring your French and answering in English. "
