Mervyn Peake cytaty (91 cytatów) | Cytaty sławnych ludzi

Źródło: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 2 “The Great Kitchen” (p. 18)
Kontekst: It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

“Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.”

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Mervyn Peake książka Titus Groan

Źródło: Titus Groan

“But we have seen it in the air,
A fairy like a William Pear”

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Mervyn Peake

Poem O Here it is

“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven.”

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Mervyn Peake książka Titus Groan

Źródło: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 1 “The Hall of the Bright Carvings” (p. 9)

“The paper is breathless
Under the hand
And the pencil is poised
Like a warlock's wand.”

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Poem in The Glassblowers (1950)

“Never having had either positive cruelty or kindness shown to her by her parents, but only an indifference, she was not conscious of what it was that she missed—affection.”

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Mervyn Peake książka Titus Groan

Źródło: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 37 “The Grotto” (p. 211)

“The lives of the Outer Dwellers had become almost normal again. Bitterness was their bread and rivalry their wine.”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 69 (p. 743)

“Pompous as only failures can be.”

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Mervyn Peake książka Titus Alone

Źródło: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 82 (p. 959)

“There is something about a swarm that is damaging to the pride of its individual members.”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 32 (p. 555)

“If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing—flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it.”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 2 (pp. 404-405)

“He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The dawn was too tense and highly charged for any common happening to survive.”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 57, section 3 (p. 686)

“The tremendous gulf between the sexes yawned—and an abyss, terrifying and thrilling, sheer and black as the arbour in which they sat; a darkness wide, dangerous, imponderable and littered with the wrecks of broken bridges.”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 36 (p. 595)

“How merciful a thing is man’s ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds!”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 17 (p. 484)

“This upstart, this dangerous, unprecedented upstart, whose pursuit of the doctrines was propelled by a greed for personal power as cold as it was tameless.”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 22 (p. 527)

“Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracks. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet bears away from a choked river.”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 1, section 1 (p. 399)

“The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

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Źródło: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 38 (p. 606)

“Through honeycombs of stone would now be wandering the passions in their clay. There would be tears and there would be strange laughter. Fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings. And dreams, and violence, and disenchantment.”

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Mervyn Peake książka Titus Groan

Źródło: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 69 “Mr Rottcodd Again” (p. 396)