"Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought,……" — Mervyn Peake
"Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered."
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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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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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Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
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I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that…
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which…
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of…
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when…
— Steven Pressfield
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and…
— Peter Cundall
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew…
— Ayn Rand
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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of…
— Werner Herzog
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I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who…
— Rush Limbaugh
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It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down…
— Sandra Ingerman
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A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he…
— Gautama Buddha
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One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
— Charles de Lint
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