"Why break the heart that never beat from…" — Mervyn Peake
"Why break the heart that never beat from love?"
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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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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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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
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I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had…
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Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.
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If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
— Josh Billings
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As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So…
— Larry Bird
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
— Mary J. Blige
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Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are…
— William J. H. Boetcker
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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