Attributed No Source Quotes

“Don’t be bullied or care what anyone else thinks of you. Delight in anarchy and enjoy the art of great humour.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“Let me not believe in destiny but rather let destiny believe in me.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“I was told I was a Scotsman because of the way I pronounce 'bastard'.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“I don’t know, perhaps because life is the only thing I know or that it is the only thing I don’t know.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“Suspend your disbelief.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Nothing is defined nor asked or told, for we are already one.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“The bond that lies between us, the mutual want – with what attention we stretch our fibres taut between us, straining to get ever nearer, seeking beauty even in discarding and finding.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“The moment has seduced us both and the want is a simple act of respect.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“This spell – the breathless words are shyly spoken both at once with fluttering joy.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“We love without words.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“We would kiss sometimes, the kiss of friendliness, but they would linger too long, too hot for comfort.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“The midnight hand
Stands upright,
Caught for an instant
In the pitching chime
Of dead day,
The hush cries, freedom!
And is strangled in the rush
Of tomorrow's potential.

The midnight hour,
When time is still,
A shrill gasp of passion unspent,
A sour taste
Of bent magic
In a god's tragic
World.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1963

“I spent most of my childhood and youth with guts twisted in winding pain. I was viewing life from the wrong slope.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Dead drunk as opposed to dead!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Flat beer - ugh!”
― Gordon Roddick

“Oh, wonderful debauchery!”
― Gordon Roddick

“I must always write this way. I must always feel – and deeply.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Pure. Neat. Undiluted. Me.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I would give many days of suffering for one simple experience of love, that of love that nothing or nobody will explain in cold analytical terms.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Just the feeling that emanated from her presence kept me happy – oh, what wind-blown passionate days those were; if we argued, we argued with equal intensity, as we loved, but it could never last the arguing; it was always destroyed by love.”
― Gordon Roddick

“FLUENT LOVE
Time dark obscure
Faded into love’s magic
As we lay out separate hearts,
Tragic,
Eyes bled the souls’
Hidden secrets as we fled
To the goals
Of fluent love.

Our hearts melting
Ran down to our loins,
A swollen molten mass united
No joins
We merged so fluid
And raised our single voice in thanks
To the druid
Of fluent love.

We smoked our single
Cigarette singing,
Our single song
Ringing
To the sad sun, so certain
Of winter’s morning cold
Behind the curtain
Of fluent love.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We were fascinated by the love we saw reflected; we were speechless with the love we felt, and it seemed every beautiful feeling I had ever experienced accumulated in those few moments.”
― Gordon Roddick

“There was an aura around us which was impenetrable. It was our world, and no one else could intrude; neither did we ever want to escape into that world outside our aura.”
― Gordon Roddick

“How much it meant.
Life should be full of stolen
moments like those;
they are dreams
floating on the seam of reality,
yet they are more real, more perfect than real,
or they are a purer, better reality
that can become like this.
Then, life is nothing.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Oh, damn it all to hell.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I feel a sense of inferiority so great that I cannot compare, for my weakling neurotic soul is but simple and full of great mistakes, not mistakes of greatness.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“Oh, damn it all to hell, I have a communion with life. I am a flower of bloody energy, blood, bones, damn weakness; let strange ever win.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“Oh, damn you, be a man of guts, live to your own projected philosophy, live to your own morality and tell the rest to go to hell.”
― Gordon Roddick, 1962

“Anarchy without violence and with humour seems like the perfect path to take.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I shall say nothing of my insanity, which keeps me sane.”
― Gordon Roddick