"The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have……" — Malcolm Lowry
"The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was."
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Malcolm Lowry
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21 Quotes by Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry has 21 quotes on this site.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the…
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In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little…
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No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself,…
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God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and…
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
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Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on…
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The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It…
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How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.
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What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit…
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I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
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Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that…
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