"I am too rich already, for my eyes……" — Mervyn Peake
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39 Quotes by Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Peake has 39 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
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More Coloured Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm…
— Malcolm X
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To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true…
— Lord Buckley
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I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so…
— Vera Brittain
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Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars…
— Steven Chu
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven…
— Chuck Berry
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Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them…
— Maimonides
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any…
— Don Van Vliet
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured…
— Oswald Spengler
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