"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"

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Source : Malcolm Lowry (2000). “Under the Volcano”, p.283, Penguin UK

Malcolm Lowry

#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal.”

Source : "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.
“We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.”
“I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.”

Source : Song: Birth Energy, Album: The Unimaginable Life
“Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.”
“I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.”
“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.”
“Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from dead languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then re-rewritten, then translated again, then given to the pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, the re-re-re-re-rewritten again...all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years AFTER they happened.. to people who didnt know how to write... so...”
“After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.”

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