"For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts."

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Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.100, Open Road Media

Malcolm Lowry

#Two Quotes #Forts Quotes #Mute Quotes

“We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for,”

Source : FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Aug 27, 2012
“There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.”
“I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
“There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately, brings numerous other forms of trouble and distress upon them. This danger is ROMANTICISM, which leads people to live, not according to their reason, but according to their emotions; that is, according to their desires, hatreds, their susceptibility to temptations and their whims.”
“Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.”
“In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.”
“I'm one of the old crabby types and younger people are perfectly happy with everything that goes on.”

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