"For what use are books to anyone whose……" — Mervyn Peake

"For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty."

— Mervyn Peake

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39 Quotes by Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For…
Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams…
Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and…
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees…
I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.
I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural…
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that…
He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was…
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and…

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More Anyone Quotes

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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about… — Neil Armstrong
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that… — Neil Armstrong
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize… — Andrea Arnold
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one… — Diane Ackerman
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. — Teresa of Avila
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else… — Richard Bach
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. — Burt Bacharach

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