Mervyn Peake Quotes

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• There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the…
• Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
• There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and…
• Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in her…
• The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned…
• I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
• The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.
• I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
• Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to…
• What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,…
• He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had…
• This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At…
• Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
• I am clever enough to know that I am clever.
• Oh how I hate people!
• Why break the heart that never beat from love?
• For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.
• When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the…
• To live at all is miracle enough.
• We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth…

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