"In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement."

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Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.223, Open Road Media

Malcolm Lowry

#War Quotes #Flames Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I always liked strange characters.”
“Iâ€™m beginning to think that you donâ€™t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or backâ€¦ that you find it when you look around.”
“Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.”

Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 125), 1997.
“Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost.”

Source : "Iniesta graduates from cameo role to take centre stage at Barcelona" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2009.
“I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.”
“I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.”
“Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.”
“A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.”

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