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Mervyn Peake

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It was a long head.

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MERVYN PEAKE I am clever enough to know that I am clever.
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MERVYN PEAKE This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of k...
MERVYN PEAKE What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that seco...
MERVYN PEAKE In great thick dusty books he read
And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.
...
MERVYN PEAKE If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by...
MERVYN PEAKE She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed beca...
MERVYN PEAKE Civilized people don't feel.
MERVYN PEAKE And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling fro...
MERVYN PEAKE So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage. So limp of body that th...
MERVYN PEAKE I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.

- Coloured Money
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MERVYN PEAKE He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
MERVYN PEAKE And a ton came down on a coloured road,
And a ton came down on a gaol,
And a ton came down...
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MERVYN PEAKE To live at all is miracle enough.
MERVYN PEAKE Hold fast
To the law
Of the last
Cold tome,
Where the earth
Of the truth MERVYN PEAKE ...she stepped outwards into the dim atmosphere, and falling, was most fabulously lit by the moon an...
MERVYN PEAKE But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved.
MERVYN PEAKE Gormenghast.
Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the...
MERVYN PEAKE He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought wa...
MERVYN PEAKE She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave...
MERVYN PEAKE Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening?
MERVYN PEAKE Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wr...
MERVYN PEAKE Linger now with me, thou Beauty,
On the sharp archaic shore.
Surely 'tis a wastrel's dut...
MERVYN PEAKE I shall live alone. Always alone. In a house or a tree.'

Fuchsia started to chew at a fre...
MERVYN PEAKE The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them,...
MERVYN PEAKE The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it ...
MERVYN PEAKE And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomor...
MERVYN PEAKE Mount and begone. The world awaits you.
MERVYN PEAKE Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on t...
MERVYN PEAKE Swelter's eyes meet those of his enemy, and never has there held between four globes of gristle so s...
MERVYN PEAKE Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.
MERVYN PEAKE For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
MERVYN PEAKE It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for i...
MERVYN PEAKE In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous s...
MERVYN PEAKE When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his ...
MERVYN PEAKE His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the in...
MERVYN PEAKE Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a...
MERVYN PEAKE There is a love that equals in its power the love of man for woman and reaches inwards as deeply. It...
MERVYN PEAKE Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.
MERVYN PEAKE For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.
MERVYN PEAKE Oh how I hate people!
MERVYN PEAKE Why break the heart that never beat from love?
MERVYN PEAKE We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convict...
MERVYN PEAKE I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds
That interwreathe among the bones of kings
Wit...
MERVYN PEAKE That night, I hated father. He smelt of cabbage. There was cigarette ash all over his trousers. His ...
MERVYN PEAKE Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Ho...
DAVID GEMMELL Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS For an entire fleet to have to remain on the ground is unusual, but keep in mind that this fleet is ...
KATHLEEN BERGEN Life is too short to be on a diet.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID Life is too short to blend in.
PARIS HILTON Life is too short not to experiment.
JAMELIA Life is too short not to enjoy it.
GLEN CAMPBELL In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi wen...
DAMON KNIGHT There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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VIVIEN LEIGH Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whe...
A.A. PATAWARAN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Life is too short for long-term grudges.
ELON MUSK Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!
JURGEN KLOPP Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHAL Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
GYORGY LIGETI Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
IMAN The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
MARY ASTELL We also operate a considerable fleet of vehicles. And, like everybody else, rising gas prices have h...
JAY DAWSON I flinch. Maybe you have to be male to understanding that castration can't be reduced to finger-scis...
MARK MILLS DADDY

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived l...
SYLVIA PLATH The door snicked shut.
MADELINE MILLER Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
BRUCE DICKINSON Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
HUGH HEFNER Our prime target is to improve fleet utilization.
DIONO NURJADIN Life is too short for traffic.
DAN BELLACK Life is too short for traffic
DAN BELLACK Life is too short for souvenirs.
GANDHAR KATRE About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
GENE SIMMONS For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
CATE BLANCHETT It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.
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LYSANDER A man of the mouth, formerly the most oral of surgeons, Henry had the habit of giving his lady patie...
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ALEX MARSHALL Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.
MARTIAL Life is too short for a long story.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Life is too short to long for money.
UNKNOWN Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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