Roman Quotes by Roman Payne

“Women are extraordinary creatures!”

— Roman Payne

“The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards…

— Roman Payne

“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite…

— Roman Payne

“The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.”

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“May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.”

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“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before…

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“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”

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“Be there a picnic for the devil, an orgy for the satyr, and a wedding for the bride.”

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“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.”

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“Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I…

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“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues…

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“We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to…

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“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were…

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“Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every…

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“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be…

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“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to…

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“The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to…

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“Did I live the spring I’d sought? It’s true in joy, I walked along, took part in dance, and sang the song.…

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“There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed…

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“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One…

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“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the…

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“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came…

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“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the…

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“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I…

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“I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because…

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“English: Ô, take this eager dance you fool, don’t brandish your stick at me. I have several reasons to travel on, on…

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“I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!' 'Fleeting?!' responded the…

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“The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with silk and song, 'Lay…

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“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:…

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“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,…

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“The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.”

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“Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.”

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“Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.”

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“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight. Her hands asleep beside her. Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of…

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“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress.”

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“If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good'…

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“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

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“It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city…

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“In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n’y avait aucun mot pour dire ‘Devoir’ (Duty).…

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“I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but…

— Roman Payne