"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."

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Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

Malcolm Lowry

#Lonely Quotes #Light Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.”
“It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us.”

Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.18, Canongate Books
“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2001). “The Long Revolution”, p.311, Broadview Press
“Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.”
“We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.”
“At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.”
“There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever i can.”
“Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?”

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