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Mervyn Peake has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Why break the heart that never beat from love?
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When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his…
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As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling,…
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Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the…
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Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.
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In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions.…
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She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her…
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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that…
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Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the…
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Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It…
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Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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