"Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both."

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Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.531, Open Road Media

Malcolm Lowry

#Thinking Quotes #Earth Quotes #Hell Quotes

“Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.”

Source : "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.
“If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.”
“I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.”
“I didn't have a very religious family.”
“There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.”
“The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my wife didn't know what to believe anymore, and the fact that I didn't have a job, I couldn't support my bills, the fact that I was getting ready to go through maybe a mental setback in terms of depression, we just had a tremendous amount of things on us.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.”
“I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.”

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