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.
"Clarence Malcolm Lowry" 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.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Malcolm Lowry on Wikipedia.Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
War is being declared to-morrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story you will get more out of if you don't skip.
If you feel like breaking, think of all the other dreams unfulfilled, the children unseen, the books unwritten, the work never to be done, the last nights together, the countless acres of anguish and the darkened haunted cities: consider the pity war distils and ourselves as creatures of luck, compared with the others who can gain no last moments more.
It can be regarded as a kind of symphony, or in another way as a kind of opera - or even a horse opera. It is hot music, a poem, a song, a comedy, a farce, and so forth. It is superficial, profound, entertaining, and boring, according to taste. It is a prophecy, a political warning, a cryptogram, a preposterous movie.
Mexico... is the most Christ-awful place in the world to be in any form of distress.
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