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It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.Glen Duncan
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How was the light today?”“ Big. Hot. Yellow-white. The sky’s blue was like a drumbeat. I watched the black tree shadows revolve. When the sun went down it was like someone’s hand was pulling it, very gently. It was soft-edged and orange. The land went purple, then dark blue and grey, then black. Then you opened your eyes.Glen Duncan
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Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.Michael Marshall Smith
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Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse — and the writer’s.Glen Duncan
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The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.Glen Duncan
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All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.Glen Duncan
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It’s Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.Glen Duncan
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... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.Glen Duncan
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Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.Glen Duncan
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Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to?Glen Duncan
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If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.Glen Duncan