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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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Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the…
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Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them…
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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between…
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Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
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I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.
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