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.
• In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.
• 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…
• 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…
• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
• How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
• 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…
• 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…
• How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.
• 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…
• I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
• Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and…
• Only against death does man cry out in vain.
• For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.
• How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
• 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…
• 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…
• 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."…
• Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
• 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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