"The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)"

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Source : Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Glen Duncan

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“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
“All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.”

Source : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.13, Univ of California Press
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.”
“I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?”
“No one is going to buy a big phone.”
“We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.”
“Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.”
“A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.”

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