Malcolm Lowry Under The Volcano Quotes

#1. In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper'.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Pearl S. Buck

#3. To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.

Idries Shah

#4. Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Monica Seles

#5. Under the volcano! It was not for nothing the ancients had placed Tartarus under Mt. Aetna, nor within it, the monster Typhoeus, with his hundred heads and - relatively - fearful eyes and voices.

Malcolm Lowry

#6. Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things ... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. In order to find meaning and readerly pleasure in the universe the writer reveals to us, we feel we must search for the novel's secret center, and we therefore try to embed every detail of the novel in our memory, as if learning each leaf of a tree by heart.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. Although I was always a keen library user, buying books was a different order of bliss, because I would get to live with these ones.
(A Chat with Emma Donoghue)

Jen Campbell

#9. Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

Archibald MacLeish

#10. Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

Meg Rosoff

#11. The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

#12. To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.

Henry More

#13. Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn't.

Fredrik Backman

#14. And a recent study revealed that American politicos spend more on Uber than on regular taxis when campaigning, a strong indication that the road ahead is likely to remain clear.

Anonymous