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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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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin…
— Robert Benchley
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
— St. Catherine of Siena
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Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should…
— Sun Tzu
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An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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He can't kick with his left foot, he can't head a ball, he can't tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart…
— George Best
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He's carrying his left leg, which, to be honest, is his only leg.
— Steve Coppell
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That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.
— John Scales
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He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and…
— Svetlana Alliluyeva
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He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if…
— John L. Parker Jr.
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
— Charles Lindbergh
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He has lost his left arm, but I my right.
— Robert E. Lee
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. . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a…
— James McCudden
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