For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country, " used words which no one else understood, words which he did not understand, and words which do not exist, to swell a passionate theme, to confound his neighbors in an argument, and for their own sake. He would say, for example, "My farm was the very apocalypse of fertility, but the renter has rested on his oars till it is good for nothing, " or "Manifest the bounty to pass the salt shaker in my direction." Something of the Bible, something of an Irish inheritance, something of a liar's anxiety, made of his most ordinary remark a strange and wearisome oratory. Glenway Wescott
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The crushing...
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Cormac McCarthy
You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'' R E V E L A T I O N S. CHAPTER SIX.
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Neil Gaiman
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.
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Neil Gaiman
What if nobody showed up at Armageddon?
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C.R. Strahan
Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
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Jim Butcher
More Quotes By Glenway Wescott
People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.
The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began to wonder if he would ever have anything as beautiful...
For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country, " used words which no one else understood, words which he did not understand, and words which do not exist, to swell a passionate theme, to confound his neighbors in an argument,...
