To live at all is miracle enough.
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Mervyn Peake
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It was a long head.
It was a wedge, a sliver, a grotesque slice in which it seemed the fe...
MERVYN PEAKE
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
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
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
The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The g...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live...
EDWARD YOUNG
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything i...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Ho...
DAVID GEMMELL
All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if ...
LEMONY SNICKET
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it i...
STORM JAMESON
There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The
other is as thoug...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as...
RICHARD CRASHAW
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
JACK KORNFIELD
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost ...
SIMONE WEIL
All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM
There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY I like to believe magic is all around us, finding its way into everyday life one miracle at a time.
D.A. HENNEMAN
It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce.
VOLTAIRE If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.
VICKI ROBIN
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
BILL COSBY to live at all is to be bruised
SARAH PERRY In the Presence of Love...there are Miracles...Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle ...
DEBORAH BROOKS We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
DAVE FARBER
Divine miracle is at work in my life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA ...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.
MAGICA QUARTET
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
BILL COSBY
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked
BILL COSBY
Is this the end of all the endings?
My broken bones are mending
With all these nights we'r...
TAYLOR SWIFT Be master of your own self.Strive to live calm with self awareness, remain wake up to your cause & g...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enoug...
ANN VOSKAMP
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibil...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
EMILE M. CIORAN
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
GROUCHO MARX If time heals all hurt; will I live long enough?
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER
There are only two ways to live a life, wait for a miracle or become one.
FAISAL KHOSA Government is not doing enough at all.
JEFF RUTSTEIN
Be so strong enough in virtues like hard work rather than waiting for miracle.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I ha...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
There are millions reasons to live and not even a single reason to die! You must protect your life -...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live
happily, and to be at peace with h...
HARRY TRUMAN
...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.
DAVID CLEMENT-DAVIES
It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them a...
HYMAN RICKOVER
Living is not enough; we must live an illuminated life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been pre...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're ...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. ...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Mervyn was awesome. I improved in the second set, but he played some storming bowls to stop me getti...
ALEX MARSHALL
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screa...
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Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through t...
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I am clever enough to know that I am clever.
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Take him away. Prepare a feast. Forget nothing. My crown: the golden cutlery. The poison bottles; an...
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This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of k...
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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.
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And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling fro...
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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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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
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...
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 my memories are made of scars and tattoos,they will last forever
MERVYN We wanted to wear them down because we knew they had a long bus ride up here and I think that defini...
ROY PEAKE Everybody goes through it. He carried us earlier in the season, and it's a good thing that he did. W...
ROY PEAKE
Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- r...
MERVYN GRIFFITH-JONES A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Berg?re and looks at the audience.
BISHOP MERVYN STOCKWOOD When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years lat...
MERVYN A. KING