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ModeRoom Books “It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.” - Charles Baudelaire

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ModeRoom Books "To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel."
— Robert Walser

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ModeRoom Books “But now I have come to
believe that the whole
world is an enigma; a
harmless enigma that is
made terrible by our own
mad attempt to interpret it
as though it had an
underlying truth.”
- Umberto Eco
(Italian Novelist)

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ModeRoom Books "One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes." - Par Lagerkvist

Rosey
Rosey
Love it!
Sun at 6:45am
Jean Otto Ford
Jean Otto Ford
A definite repost... especially with thanksgiving around the corner.
Sun at 8:46am
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ModeRoom Books "From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered." — Roman Payne (ModeRoom Press Author)

Zack Daniel
Zack Daniel
deep thoughts :)
November 7 at 10:57pm
Shelley McElhiney
Shelley McElhiney
Great quote!
Sun at 6:55pm
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ModeRoom Books Literary photos are now online for the new ModeRoom publication: “Rooftop Soliloquy,” by Roman Payne...
http://www.romanpayne.com/rooftop-soliloquy/places-in-the-book.htm
...Thanks to all fans of the Daily Literary Quote for your support of ModeRoom Books!

Source: www.romanpayne.com
Anyone who has spent time in Paris will recognize the neighborhoods and the monuments scattered about the novel like furniture in a room where a wild drama is being lived. Those unfamiliar with the city will learn its textures from the flesh to the marrow. One becomes a Parisian reading this book.
ModeRoom Books

ModeRoom Books "Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?" - Virginia Woolf

Marguerite
Marguerite
'such a painful quote' oh...my!!
November 5 at 7:44pm
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ModeRoom Books "Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years." - Carl Sandburg
http://www.moderoom.com/mode-ig/daily-quote/daily-quote_share.htm

Gino Prout
Gino Prout
Heaven and hell are on earth;
November 4 at 12:03pm
Ameen Behbehani
Ameen Behbehani
we create our own hell and heaven, and chose to live in them.
November 4 at 12:10pm
Mike
Mike
I am a fan of Carl Sandburg and this is a great quote!
November 4 at 9:23pm
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ModeRoom Books “It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, holding hands, the physics of falling leaves, jasmine and poppies, laughter, rain, the concept of subway trains… if only one could leave this life slowly.” - Roman Payne (ModeRoom Author [from his new novel, Rooftop Soliloquy])

Aseel Al-nakib
Aseel Al-nakib
sound like music to my ears:)
November 2 at 10:52pm
Karen

Karen regarding today's Roman Payne quote on google. Be careful what you ask for, Roman. Indeed, there are many ways of leaving this life very, very slowly. Most of them horrifying. I am aware this quote was taken out of context so, in all probability, it is not as naive as it sounds.

November 2 at 7:17am · Report
Zack Wentz
Zack Wentz
Agreed, although I'm not so sure the context would make it any better. More precious than profound. Very disappointed at the way they're plugging product amidst quotes from legitimately canonized authors.

Leaving life slowly: Stanley Elkin's "Her Sense of Timing." Harrowing. But of course nobody would ever have considered the late Mr. Elkin for the cover of GQ.
November 7 at 6:06pm
ModeRoom Books

ModeRoom Books "It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way." - Ernest Hemingway (www.moderoom.com)

Laura Thomas

Laura Thomas My new favorite site!

Mayyee Losa LAM

Mayyee Losa LAM This is book the frist page or ......

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ModeRoom Books Hot off the press! ...the long awaited new novel by Roman Payne is now available for sale on Amazon! Buy it, you won't be disappointed... http://www.amazon.com/Rooftop-Soliloquy-Roman-Payne/dp/0578032813

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ModeRoom Books "After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others." - Edith Wharton