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David Peace is a British writer renowned for his fiction and non-fiction works. Born in 1967, Peace has made a name for himself with his distinctive narrative style, which intertwines historical and contemporary themes. His writing frequently examines the intricacies of human nature and societal issues.

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Famous David Peace Quotes

“It’s a big black bloody world full of a million black and bloody hells, and when those hells collide it’s time for us to sit up and take fucking notice.”

Hell Despair Corruption Hopelessness Self Destruction

Book:Nineteen Eighty

Source: Nineteen Eighty

“I lit my last cigarette and said my little prayers. Clare, here’s one for you. Susan, here’s one for you. Jeanette, here’s one for you. Paula, they’re all for you. And the unborn. I sat there, singing along to The Little Drummer Boy, with those far off days, those days of grace, coming down. Waiting for the blue lights. Ninety miles an hour.”

Despair Suicide Revenge Prayers

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“For the first time my prayers were not for me but for everyone else, that all of those things in my notebooks, on all of those tapes, in all of those envelopes and bags in my room, that none of them were true, that the dead were alive and the lost were found, and that all of those lives could be lived anew.”

Death Hope Prayer Despair Living

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“For the first time my prayers were not for me but for everyone else, that the dead were alive and the lost were found, and that all those lives could be lived anew.”

Death Hope Lost Despair Prayers

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“The things I saw and things I missed- The many, many bloody things I fucking missed- It’s just another morning; another morning when I wish I wasn’t here.”

Regret Despair Depression Suicidal

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“But there are tears in my eyes and then I can’t stop crying, stood there on that practice pitch in the dark, the tears rolling down my bloody cheeks, for once in my fucking life glad that I’m alone.”

Tears Emotional Despair Alone Crying

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“Nodding and laughing- Really, really laughing- The guards too. Laughing and nodding and blinking and patting down his hair, the spittle on his chin- Michael John Myshkin, murderer of children is laughing- Spittle on his chin, tears on his cheeks.”

Despair Guilt Innocence Prisoner Murderers

Book:Nineteen Eighty Three

Source: Nineteen Eighty Three

“Battering down doors, battering down people, kicking in doors, kicking in people, searching for her, searching for me.”

Lost Crazy Despair Searching Going Mad

Book:Nineteen Seventy Seven

Source: Nineteen Seventy Seven

“Never had the urge to deliver us from evil?” “No, never” “Devil triumphs when good men do nowt”

Evil Devil Good Triumph Doing The Right Thing

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“Devil triumphs when good men do nowt”

Evil Devil Good Triumph

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“One day they won. The next day they lost.”

Victory Defeat Futility Miners Strike

Book:GB84

Source: GB84

“Because this is the first thing you have ever won and, like your first pair of boots, your first kiss and your first car, you’ll never forget the hours of this day.”

Memories Victory Happy Elation

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“They will want answers. Then they'll want silence.”

Answers Silence Ignorance Corruption Denial

Book:GB84

Source: GB84

“The future, like the past, is written. It cannot be changed, but it can help to heal the wounds of the present.”

Past Healing Fate Future Present

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“Leeds United had won but I didn’t care. I had lost.”

Winning Lost Football Depression Disappointment

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“You’ve had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.”

Doubt Failure Disappointment Had Enough

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“I pulled myself up on my elbows and lay on my belly staring down into hell. There below me in the basin of Hunslet Carr, just 500 yards beneath me, was my England on the morning of Sunday 15 December in the year of Our Lord 1974, looking a thousand years younger and none the better.”

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“They are waiting for us again. My youngest lad and me. The crows around the floodlights. The dogs around the gates. They are waiting for us because we are late again. My youngest lad and me.”

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“You waited in the same piss for your Pete to show. He didn't so you went inside and cremated your mother. Stood alone at the front and bit the inside of your cheek until the blood wouldn't stop and the tears finally came.”

Grief Alone Funeral

Book:Nineteen Eighty Three

Source: Nineteen Eighty Three

“If you’re looking for a pal, Mr Clough, you can count me out.”

Alone Rejection Friendless

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“I prayed for my mother and sister, for my uncles and aunts, for the friends I’d had, both good and bad, and last for my father wherever he was, Amen.”

Faith Prayer Family Mothers And Fathers

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“The smell of blood. The smell of sweat. The smell of tears. The smell of Algipan. You want to smell these smells for the rest of your life.”

Blood Tears Sweat

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“Because there is no fucking consolation- No consolation for not winning- That’s irreplaceable.”

Winning Losing Consolation Irreplaceable Win No Matter What

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“And I am still haunted by all the things I could have been.”

Life Regret Potential Haunted

Author:David Peace

“The sun comes out but the rain stays put. No rainbows today. Not here.”

Sun Rain Rainbow

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters.”

Age Sports Knowledge Football

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“So we can expect a bit more warmth, a bit more "honesty and a bit more Brian Clough from the League Champions? " asks Mitchell. "A lot more Brian Clough actually" I tell him. "A lot more”

Football Confidence Arrogance

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“But it’s over. It’s over and you know it- No League Championships. No FA Cups. No European Cups- The roar and the whistle. The applause and the adoration- Finished forever. Second best. Forever.”

Loss Football Failure Bitterness Wasted Years

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“The things you’ve done and the things you’ve said; the fists you’ve raised and the bruises you’ve kissed, everything has finally come together and will now stay together.”

Worth It Coming Together Falling Into Place

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“The President had not come to ask for help. He did not want help. He did not need help. The President had not come to beg. He did not want charity. He did not need charity. The President had come only to hold them to their word. To have them keep their promises. Honour their pledges. The president had come only to collect. To collect what was his.”

President Charity Honour Keeping Your Word Pledges

Book:GB84

Source: GB84

“Well, if there’s a hell like this place then there has to be a heaven somewhere.”

Faith Hope Heaven Hell

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.' 'Having been here thirty-four days,' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.' 'Why's that then?' he smiles. 'Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere.”

God Religion Heaven Soccer

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“You are afraid, afraid of your dreams, your dreams which were once your friends, your best friends, are now your enemies, your worst enemies.”

Dreams Friends Enemies Afraid

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“Back in my muddy clothes at the door of my room, swallowing pills and lighting cigarettes, wanting to sleep but not wanting to dream, thinking this’ll be the day that I die, pictures of Paula waving bye bye.”

Fear Sleep Dreams Suicide Guilt

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“I wanted to sleep for a thousand years, to wake up when them and their like were gone, when I didn’t have their dirty black ink on my fingers, in my blood.”

Sleep Dreams Secrets Hopelessness

Book:Nineteen Seventy-Four

Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four

“He hates me and I hate him, but I hate him more, more and more-”

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“They hate me” I tell him. “Despise me. And they’ll hate you too. Despise you. But we’ll be here long after they’re all gone.”

Book:The Damned Utd

Source: The Damned Utd

“A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.”

Soul Bigs Today Gone Brother Tomorrow Circus Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Book:Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four

Source: Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four

“My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Art Said Used Artist Father Talking Matthew Stanley Bradman

Author:David Peace

About the Author

Born: 1967
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 39

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