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I am your boat! I am your crewYour rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum — Mervyn Peake
Why break the heart that never beat from love?
— Mervyn Peake
Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.
— Mervyn Peake
He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
— Mervyn Peake
From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order ...
— Mervyn Peake
I am clever enough to know that I am clever.
— Mervyn Peake
Another one? They seem to be multiplying like flies, these philosophers.
— Mervyn S. Whyte
Oh how I hate people!
— Mervyn Peake
In the euro area the fight for survival has become a battle between politicians and arithmetic.
— Mervyn King
He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor.
— Mervyn Peake
She stepped outwards into the dim atmosphere, and falling, was most fabulously lit by the moon and the sun.
— Mervyn Peake
For what is more lovable than failure?
— Mervyn Peake
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.
— Mervyn Peake
When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers' accounts.
— Mervyn King
Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening?
— Mervyn Peake
It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined.
— Mervyn Peake
Mount and begone. The world awaits you.
— Mervyn Peake
To live at all is miracle enough.
— Mervyn Peake
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
— Mervyn Peake
Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.
— Mervyn Peake
Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.
— Mervyn Peake
In great thick dusty books he readAnd hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.
- One Day When They Had Settled Down — Mervyn Peake
For answer Mr Flay shot his head forward out of his collar and croaked, 'Silence! you kitchen thing. Hold your tongue you greasy fork.
— Mervyn Peake
I want a big breakfast," said Fuchsia at last. "I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.
— Mervyn Peake
Civilized people don't feel.
— Mervyn Peake
Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.
— Mervyn King
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
— Mervyn Levy
Someday each one of us will have to account to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for what we have done with His name.
— Mervyn B. Arnold
The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.
— Mervyn King
I do not understand your love,' he said.
— Mervyn Peake
The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it.
— Mervyn Davies
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
— Mervyn Peake
For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.
— Mervyn Peake
I am the wilderness lost in man.
— Mervyn Peake
Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.
— Mervyn Peake
