"As I see it, life is an effort……" — Mervyn Peake
"As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean."
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39 Quotes by Mervyn Peake
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There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For…
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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…
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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…
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The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees…
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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…
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What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that…
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He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was…
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This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and…
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