Malcolm Lowry Short Quotes

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What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

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Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.

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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

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"Christ," he remarked, puzzled, "this is a dingy way to die."

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What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?

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

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Success is like some horrible disaster Worse than your house burning.

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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

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But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can't get drunk however much I drink.

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Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.

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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

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Late of the Bowery
His prose was flowery
And often glowery
He lived, nightly, and drank, daily,
And died playing the ukelele.

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I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.

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In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

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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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