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Mervyn Peake has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps…
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Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild…
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The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the…
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I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
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The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.
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I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
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Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were…
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What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated…
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He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within…
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This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously…
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,…
— Aeschylus
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It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
— Hans Asperger
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There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little…
— Unknown Author
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My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.
— Tie Domi
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There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to…
— Adrian Carton de Wiart
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That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
— Jesse Jackson
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It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example…
— Bergen Evans
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A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on,…
— Eric Partridge
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Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
— George Herbert
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