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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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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps…
— Mervyn Peake
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Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the…
— William Archibald Spooner
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If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your…
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit…
— H.G. Wells
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Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel,…
— Hugh Laurie
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What happened to the life of the party? I'm not kidding, we're all dead. Now everybody's passed out, face down. The sun…
— Motionless In White
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I got ta get my props. Cops, come and try to snatch my crops. These pigs wanna blow my house down. Head…
— Cypress Hill
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Ay, now every time I stepped in you could tell I stepped out. I saw your girlfriend only from the chest down…
— Big Sean
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Jim, she said earnestly, if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all…
— Willa Cather
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HE ONLY WANTED 1 THING FROM YOU He only wanted 1 thing from you from the start. That is why he always…
— Muniir Zero
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