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Mervyn Peake

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It was a long head.

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JEFFREY FRY One twig at a time. Like a bird making a nest.
CAROL LOVEKIN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tr...
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SOTONYE ANGA Planting a tree is like having a baby
SOTONYE ANGA The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a...
MILOS FORMAN You are unique. No other person looks exactly like you
SOTONYE ANGA With books and money placed, for show Like nest eggs, to make clients lay, And for his false o...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN No need to feel shame for what you are.
DEYTH BANGER you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a...
MICHAEL POLLAN Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: eve...
DAVID GEMMELL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example -...
DEYTH BANGER Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = br...
DEYTH BANGER You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are s...
DONNA TARTT Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years b...
ELIZABETH HAYDON It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND The reason we charge for parking and continue to charge for parking is that we have a lifeguard on d...
COUNCILMAN DAVID DRUKER In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;...
C. JOYBELL C. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived...
PAUL DI FILIPPO Everyday you are given new breath to make your next days better. Use everyday as an opportunity to m...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
AMIT RAY I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It&#...
BLAKE ANDERSON From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, ...
MICHAEL HINTZE Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Ho...
DAVID GEMMELL Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so ...
DAVID RAKOFF Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
THOMAS CARLYLE (Specialty loans) are OK for people with money in the bank who want to use the (monthly savings) for...
JAY LUBER Normally, activities like that are not something that would be enough to agitate a nest.
VALERIE FELLOWS Books are but messengers, what we do with that messages? we stack it and make no use of it.
BRADLEY B. DALINA Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.
MERVYN PEAKE There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screa...
MERVYN PEAKE Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through t...
MERVYN PEAKE I am clever enough to know that I am clever.
MERVYN PEAKE Take him away. Prepare a feast. Forget nothing. My crown: the golden cutlery. The poison bottles; an...
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
MERVYN PEAKE The crags of the mountain were ruthless in the moon; cold, deadly and shining. Distance had no meani...
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...
MERVYN PEAKE As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivio...
MERVYN PEAKE Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a...
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 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 If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.
...
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MERVYN PEAKE She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed beca...
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- Coloured Money
MERVYN PEAKE The crags of the mountain were ruthless in the moon; cold, deadly and shining. Distance had no meani...
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...
MERVYN PEAKE As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivio...
MERVYN PEAKE Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a...
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 It was a long head.

It was a wedge, a sliver, a grotesque slice in which it seemed the fe...
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...
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MERVYN PEAKE Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.
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MERVYN PEAKE Why break the heart that never beat from love?
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MERVYN PEAKE I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds
That interwreathe among the bones of kings
Wit...
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