Peter Murphy Quotes

• The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.

  Peter Murphy

  Dream, Jobs, Motivation

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• The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.

  Peter Murphy

  Beautiful, Ideas, Brain

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• Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

  Peter Murphy

  Funny, Romantic, Sex

  Peter Murphy (2015). “Lagan Love”, p.81, Fiction Studio Books

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• [S]ince there is no wrong or right, you just reap what you sow.

  Peter Murphy

  Nihilism, Wrong Or Right, Reap

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• Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

  Peter Murphy

  Writing, Crafts, Toothbrushes

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• Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

  Peter Murphy

  Real, Hammers, Gothic

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