“ [Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves. Malcolm Lowry
“ The fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light Malcolm Lowry
“ The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerv… Malcolm Lowry
“ The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head… Malcolm Lowry
“ In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement. Malcolm Lowry
“ Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run. Malcolm Lowry
“ Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days, it'd die of remorse on the third— Malcolm Lowry
“ Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to g… Malcolm Lowry
“ Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life! Malcolm Lowry
“ Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle? Malcolm Lowry
“ Bent double, groaning with the weight, an old lame Indian was carrying on his back, by means of a strap looped over his forehead, another poor Indian, yet older and more decrepit than himself. He carr… Malcolm Lowry
“ I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours. Malcolm Lowry
“ But 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, flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely… Malcolm Lowry
“ I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure. Malcolm Lowry
“ What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On th… Malcolm Lowry
“ Far too soon it had begun to seem too much of a triumph, it had been too good, too horribly unimaginable to lose, impossible finally to bear: it was as if it had become itself its own foreboding that… Malcolm Lowry
