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Mervyn Peake Quotes: Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?
         

Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?


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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 the splintered walls to the great landscape.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.




There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.



There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell

There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell



Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.



Oh how I hate people!

Oh how I hate people!



For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.




Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.



[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.





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Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.




So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?



You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.



You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.

You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.



People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.



The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.



Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.



It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.

It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.



Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.

Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.




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