Malcolm Lowry Quotes
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.
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No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who…
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God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter…
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
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Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free…
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The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures…
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How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.
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What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who…
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I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
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Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and…
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Only against death does man cry out in vain.
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For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.
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How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
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The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the…
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To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility…
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Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours."…
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others…
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