"To live at all is miracle enough."

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Source : Mervyn Peake (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.307, Carcanet

Mervyn Peake

#Inspirational Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Religion Quotes

“If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.”
“Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
“If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.”
“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”
“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.”
“When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”
“Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.”
“Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.”

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