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Malcolm Lowry

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Malcolm Lowry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1909
Born: July 28
Died: 1957
Died: June 27
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Clarence Malcolm Lowry
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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.
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How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
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How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.
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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.
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