British - Author | 1965 -
I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are.
Glen Duncan
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I will waste an extraordinary amount of time, you know. And if it's not watching television, I'll be sitting staring out of the window. And yes, I know there's the idea of the artist, sitting there doing nothing while things are going on, but actually, no. It's vacant space. I'm thinking about the laundry.
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I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.
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I am a man of lost faiths.
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I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.
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I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.
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While I was writing 'The Last Werewolf,' I didn't watch any horror movies.
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We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.
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My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.
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My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.
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The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go.
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I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror.
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