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Malcolm Lowry Biography

Clarence Malcolm Lowry (/ˈlaʊri/; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.

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Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Anxiety, Doubt, Fear, Moon, Worry

The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.

Heart, Horse, Like, Loved, Opportunity, World

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.

Cocks, Dog, Fowl, Garden, Sleep, Sorrow

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

Beer, Couple, Die, Remorse, Sober Up

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.

Destroy, Earth, Hell, Think, Thinking, Ultimate

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

Men, Assassins, Convince, Murdered, Haunt

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

War, Flames, Littles, Plunging, Excrement, Public

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

Alike, Dying, Groans, Moral, Sex

To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool. . . You've even been insulated from the responsibility of genuine suffering. . . Even the suffering you do endure is largely unnecessary. Actually spurious. It lacks the very basis you require of it for its tragic nature. You deceive yourself.

Actually, Men, Require, Responsibility, Stupid, Tragic

Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours. " "Thank you. " "Sank you. " "Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you. " "Sank you.

House, Needs, Shadow, Thank

There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.

Lonely, Light, Hands, Hand, Half, Wayside

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

Further, Like, Prefaces, Read, Sometimes

What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.

Conceivably, Helping, Legislator, Men, Moral, Weakness

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

Chickens, Drink, Hope, Indian, Playing, Understand

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