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Malcolm Lowry Quotes

The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light Picture Quote #1

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement Picture Quote #1

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon Picture Quote #1

I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand Picture Quote #1

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further Picture Quote #1

Only against death does man cry out in vain Picture Quote #1

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Christ, he remarked, puzzled, this is a dingy way to die Picture Quote #1

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying Picture Quote #1

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse? Picture Quote #1

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end Picture Quote #1

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts Picture Quote #1

What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning? Picture Quote #1

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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him Picture Quote #1

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is Picture Quote #1

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain Picture Quote #1

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through Picture Quote #1

There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word Picture Quote #1

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves Picture Quote #1

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Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both Picture Quote #1

No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell Picture Quote #1

To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool... You’ve even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself Picture Quote #1

The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico Picture Quote #1

And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell Picture Quote #1

I wake to a darkness in which I must follow myself endlessly, hating the I who so eternally pursues and confronts me. If we could rise from our misery, seek each other once more, and find again the solace of each other's lips and eyes Picture Quote #1

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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third Picture Quote #1

God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: The sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light Picture Quote #1

Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass Picture Quote #1

But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can't get drunk however much I drink Picture Quote #1

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The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) Only against death does man cry out in vain (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) Christ, he remarked, puzzled, this is a dingy way to die (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse? (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning? (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool... You’ve even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) I wake to a darkness in which I must follow myself endlessly, hating the I who so eternally pursues and confronts me. If we could rise from our misery, seek each other once more, and find again the solace of each other's lips and eyes (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: The sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass (Malcolm Lowry Quotes) But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can't get drunk however much I drink (Malcolm Lowry Quotes)