"Mount and begone. The world awaits you."

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Source : Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

Mervyn Peake

“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”

Source : "Paul Merton interview: fears of a clown". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.
“Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.”
“The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains”

Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.
“It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.”
“There are so many different musicians I look up to for different reasons - from hip-hop to rock to pop. Some are Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Pink, Avril Lavigne, BeyoncÃ©, Lil Wayne.”
“Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.”
“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.”
“Beauty becomes alive and interesting when itâ€™s habited.”

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