Craft-of-writing Quote by Roman Payne

“And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of…

— charles baudelaire

“Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.”

— Jonathan Swift

“It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I…

— Libba Bray

“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.”

— Graham Greene

“At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying.…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”

— Roman Payne

“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.…

— Anonymous

“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”

— Anais Nin

“There are few pleasures which loosen the tongue as much as that of sharing wine, glass in hand.”

— Emile Peynaud

“In fact, being old and decrepit makes you an easy target—especially if you’re addicted to opium!”

— Steve Wiegand