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Malcolm Lowry quotes

English Poet July 28, 1909 – June 26, 1957

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The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was. Malcolm Lowry
Ah, guilt and sorrow had dogged Juan's footsteps too, for he was not a Catholic who could rise refreshed from the cold bath of confession. Yet the banality stood: that the past was irrevocably past. And conscience had been given man to regret it only in so far as that might change the future. For man, every man, Juan seemed to be telling him, even as Mexico, must ceaselessly struggle upward. What was life but a warfare and a stranger's sojourn? Malcolm Lowry
When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or the Nose with the Luminous Dong! Or at best, like Clare, "weaving fearful vision" ... A frustrated poet in every man. Though it is perhaps a good idea under the circumstances to pretend at least to be proceeding with one's great work on "Secret Knowledge," then one can always say when it never comes out that the title explains the deficiency. Malcolm Lowry
And I'm afraid it really is a jungle too," pursued the Consul, "in fact I expect Rousseau to come riding out of it at any moment on a tiger." "What's that?" Mr Quincey said, frowning in a manner that might have meant: And God never drinks before breakfast either."On a tiger," the Consul repeated. The other gazed at him a moment with the cold sardonic eye of the material world. "I expect so," he said sourly. "Plenty tigers. Plenty elephants too... Might I ask you if the next time you inspect... Malcolm Lowry
How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken? Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry quote: "Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of..."
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. Malcolm Lowry
Adis," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours."Thank you."Sank you."Not sank you, Seora Gregorio, thank you."Sank you. Malcolm Lowry
To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are loosing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering ... Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself. Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcan? embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every page of it pulsates on Out of Body Auto-Reply, that style of pure Lowry that points at once backward, to all European literature, and forward, to the mother of all nervous breakdowns. Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry quote: "Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine."
Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine. Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry quote: "Only against death does man cry out in vain."
Only against death does man cry out in vain. Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry quote: "For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking..."
For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts. Malcolm Lowry
War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through. Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry quote: "Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable,..."
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain. Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry quote: "Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end."
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end. Malcolm Lowry

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