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• I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

  Willa Cather

  Women, Writing, Adventure

  Willa Cather (1993). “Willa Cather”

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• If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Poetry, Gauges

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Wise, Drinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Epic, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Men, Land

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people”

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• To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

  Plato

  Art, Learning, Potters

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.106

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• There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

  Virginia Woolf

  Water, Literature, Matter

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.14, Oxford University Press

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• THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.

  Max Frisch

  Death, Attitude, America

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• Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

  Charles Dickens

  Paris, Six, Harsh

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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• The art of medicine in the season lies:
  Wine given in season oft will benefit,
  Which out of season injures.

  Ovid

  Art, Lying, Healing

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• Who gives to Aristaeus honey;
  Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus
  Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

  Ovid

  Apples, Giving, Earth

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• That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Marriage, Night

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• If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

  Herman Melville

  Luxury, Water, Sticks

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile”, p.76

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• Let my muse
  Fail of thy former helps, and only use
  Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me
  Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Smell, Poetry, Lamps

  1648 'His Fare-well to Sack'.

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• O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine

  Robert Herrick

  Angel, Drink

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.45

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• A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Beer, Bread, Commodity

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The education of a Christian prince”, Hippocrene Books

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• Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Afterlife, Order, Humanity

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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• Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

  George Jean Nathan

  Dinner, Theater

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• A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, School, Drunk

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.

  James Boswell

  Wise, Teacher, Strong

  James Boswell (1827). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence; and conversations with many eminent persons ...”, p.58

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• Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.

  Ruth Benedict

  Believe, Wish, Patterns

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.439, Transaction Publishers

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• Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.

  Peter Jackson

  Taken, Two, Islands

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• I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

  Mario Puzo

  Drinking, Age, Used

  "Fictional character: Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Nature, Grapes

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• Not God
  with wine,
  nor death,
  nor hate for a cry,
  but God with a song

  Hilda Doolittle

  God, Song, Hate

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.466, New Directions Publishing

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