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“My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.”

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Glen Duncan

Glen Duncan, born in 1965, is a renowned author from Scotland. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound philosophical insights, spanning genres such as fantasy, horror, and literature. more

“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.”

Feels States Action Actors Causes Interesting Acting Consciousness Watches Movement Conscious Landscape Tension Dull Internals Resolve Emblems

Book:Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

“Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.”

Ambition Liquid Stains Rubies

Book:Babel-17

Source: Babel-17

“Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.”

Gone Ashes Apocalypse

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.”

Should Art Ideas Artist Pieces Magic Produce Painting Internals Submit Vulgar Distrust Spectators Identical

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.”

Art Artist Turns Frightening

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years on, others begin to realize that, really, something extraordinary was actually happening.”

People Years Art Waiting Realizing Half Movement Promise Happenings Extraordinary Dozen Always Waiting

Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

“Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.”

Wells Art Age Today Able Middle Art Is Forgiving Middle Ages Never Forgive

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.”

I Can Behinds Eternity Terror Infinity

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Do you know how hard it is to make a home?... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how.”

Knows Wells Doe Hard Helping Home Faces Know How Husband Work Out Opposition Do You Know Anxious Appreciative

Book:Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

“I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.”

Life Suspects

Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

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