Malcolm Lowry Quotes

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.

writing

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.

life peace happiness

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

theend

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

thetimes time

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

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God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light.

light

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

beauty

The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.

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