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58896ef
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One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
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virtue
poetry
wine
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Charles Baudelaire |
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b4724ce
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Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
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life
variety
experience
wine
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Paulo Coelho |
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a33a5db
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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wine
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Ernest Hemingway |
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ca8ed1c
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I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
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wine
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William Shakespeare |
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18e8c43
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"I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back."
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humor
wine
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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671f660
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Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called , or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament--the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana--is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.
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reading
writing
christianity
inspiration
religion
ancient-greeks
cana
entheos
judaea
marriage-at-cana
mullahs
omar-khayyam
symposia
iran
hellenism
passover
passover-seder
oxford
new-testament
boredom
brotherhood
plato
miracles
atheism
food
wine
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Christopher Hitchens |
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9991d70
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My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.
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war
wine
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Charles Bukowski |
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1b4a9e4
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"Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart."
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stereotypes
men
temptation
women
greed
beauty
clichés
drunkenness
social-norms
misogyny
hypocrisy
double-standards
immorality
gender
lust
sexuality
wine
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Anonymous |
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da0804d
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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victor
notre-dame
hugo
glass
wine
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Victor Hugo |
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26c6f2c
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Wine makes all things possible.
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wine
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George R.R. Martin |
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60481c0
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But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.
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kindness
small-things
wine
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Rick Riordan |
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5434e19
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It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.
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wine
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Neil Gaiman |
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a279f50
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She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.
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lifestyle
wine
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Haruki Murakami |
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83c1732
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He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.
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wine
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Edgar Allan Poe |
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67eeb6a
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As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.
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persistence
death
persist
remembrance
wine
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Thomas Pynchon |
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7c312c5
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"There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life," said Spider. "These things are wine, women and song"... "Curry's nice too" pointed out Fat Charlie"
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women
song
nice
wine
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Neil Gaiman |
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81863c4
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I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.
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time
life
wine
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Ernest Hemingway |
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e5189bb
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He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.
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wine-bottle
description
wine
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Richard Brautigan |
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c20e264
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... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.
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wine
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Roger Scruton |
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ca8aef4
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They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.
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people
italy
wine
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E.M. Forster |
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14a3149
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With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the best; Withdrawn from sorrow in some quiet nook - this is the best
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poetry
poetry-quotes
wine
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Hafez |
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97b638e
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Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks--a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.
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mediterranean
greece
wine
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Tom Standage |
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f486b09
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One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the or or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for 'exile,' or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the 'proof,' so for a time the professional interpreters of god's will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate. I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.
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jealousy
war
suffering
christianity
jesus
religion
bible
grandmothers
biblical-covenant
divine-retribution
edith-stein
false-modesty
hellenism
hiwi-al-balkhi
masochism
passover
passover-seder
rabbis
rationalisation
six-day-war
theodicy
western-wall
will-of-god
exile
gentiles
judaism
martyrdom
arrogance
holocaust
punishment
atheism
self-respect
children
jerusalem
secularism
wine
survivors
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Christopher Hitchens |
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649e851
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The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.
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war
wine
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Ernest Hemingway |
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863043e
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A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine.
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wildfire
wine
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George R.R. Martin |
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5b1ada1
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All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.
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writing
asian-american
vietnamese
wine
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Monique Truong |
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cfba782
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I'd urge you to try German Riesling because it's delicious, but I fear you'll be more impressed if I tell you it's cutting-edge. That, after all, is what we want to know-- what's now and happening. (Do you really think clunky square-toed shoes make your feet look better than those with slimming, tapered toes? You just wear them because that's what fashion dictates, you slut.)
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humor
wine
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Jay McInerney |
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5279620
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Mr. Emerson watched, almost breathless, as she swirled the wine in her glass expertly, then lifted it so that she could examine it more closely in the candlelight. She brought the glass to her nose, closed her eyes, and sniffed. Then she placed the glass to her plump lips and tasted the wine, holding it in her mouth for a while before swallowing. She opened her eyes, smiled even more widely, and thanked Antonio for his precious gift.
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gabriel-s-inferno
sylvain-reynard
wine
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Sylvain Reynard |
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8f2443b
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Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.
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wine
sin
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Mohsin Hamid |
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28473ee
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Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.
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life
meaning-of-life
wine
pleasure
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Douglas Preston |
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e97d279
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--What is it about wine, Harry? --What d'ya mean? --What is it that cures us? --Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots.
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idiots
wine
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Colum McCann |
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2de615e
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It was baking hot in the square when we came out after lunch with our bags and the rod-case to go to Burguete. People were on top of the bus, and others were climbing up a ladder. Bill went up and Robert sat beside Bill to save a place for me, and I went back in the hotel to get a couple of bottles of wine to take with us. When I came out the bus was crowded. Men and women were sitting on all the baggage and boxes on top, and the women all had their fans going in the sun. It certainly was hot. Robert climbed down and fitted into the place he had saved on the one wooden seat that ran across the top. Robert Cohn stood in the shade of the arcade waiting for us to start. A Basque with a big leather wine-bag in his lap lay across the top of the bus in front of our seat, leaning back against our legs. He offered the wine-skin to Bill and to me, and when I tipped it up to drink he imitated the sound of a klaxon motor-horn so well and so suddenly that spilled some of the wine, and everybody laughed. He apologized and made me take another drink. He made the klaxon again a little later, and it fooled me the second time. He was very good at it. The Basques liked it. The man next to Bill was talking to him in Spanish and Bill was not getting it, so he offered the man one of the bottles of wine. The man waved it away. He said it was too hot and he had drunk too much at lunch. When Bill offered the bottle the second time he took a long drink, and then the bottle went all over that part of the bus. Every one took a drink very politely, and then they made us cork it up and put it away. They all wanted us to drink from their leather wine-bottles. They were peasants going up into the hills.
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basque-people
wine
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Ernest Hemingway |
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5d9006e
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The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer- everyone is selling ethanol.
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beer
ecstasy
prescription-abuse
prescription-drugs
dependency
alcohol-addiction
addiction-and-recovery
alcohol-treatment-center
passages-ventura
pax-prentiss
substance-abuse
passages-malibu
chris-prentiss
drug-abuse
alcoholism
self-help
wine
heroin
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Chris Prentiss |
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6fbdeee
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"...I vsiako neshcho si beshe na miastoto. Svet't, kato gramaden iris na edno oshche po-gigantsko oko, otvorilo se s'shcho toku-shcho, za da ogleda vsichko, go nabliudavashe vtrencheno. I toi razbra kakvo e bilo onova, koeto se be khv'rlilo otgore mu, za da ostane s nego -- i veche niamashe da mu izbiaga. Ta az s'm bil zhiv! -- v'zklikna D'glas. Pr'stite mu trepnakha, obagreni ot kr'v, kato trofei ot nepoznato zname, zabeliazano edva sega, do tozi mig nevidiano, a toi se pitashe na koia strana voiuva i kakva kletva e dal. Preg'rnal Tom, no bez da os'znava, che go d'rzhi, toi dopria svobodnata si r'ka do tazi kr'v, siakash kr'vta bi mogla da se otk'rti, da se vzeme na dlan, da se oglezhda ot vsichki strani. Sled tui pusna Tom i ostana da lezhi po gr'b, s r'ka protegnata k'm nebeto, stana samo glava, ot koiato ochite se vzirakha kato strazhi prez boinitsite na neizvesten zam'k v edin most -- r'kata mu, i v pr'stite, k'deto iarkiiat k'rvav vimpel trepteshe na svetlinata... Trevata shepteshe pod tialoto mu. Toi otpusna r'ka i useti m'khestata nozhnitsa na vlasinkite po trevata, useti kak daleche niak'de, chak dolu, pr'stite propukvat v obuvkite mu. Viat'r't v'zd'khna krai ushite mu. Svet't se pl'zgashe, iar'k i sharen, po st'kleniia oval na ochnite mu iab'lki i toi go nabliudavashe, kakto se vizhdat obrazi, raziskreni v k'lbo ot kristal. Tsvetiata biakha sl'ntse i razzhareni petna ot sineva, pr'snati iz gorata. Ptitsite prekhvr'kvakha kato kam'cheta, razpileni po ogromnoto ob'rnato ezero na nebeto. D'kh't mu gladeshe z'bite, nakh'ltvashe leden i izlizashe razzharen. Nasekomite triaskakha v'zdukha s elektricheska iarkost. Deset khiliadi otdelni kos'ma porasnakha s edna milionna ot incha na glavata mu. Chuvashe rit'ma na s'rtsata-bliznatsi v ushite si, tretoto s'rtse tupteshe v g'rloto mu, dvete s'rtsa pulsirakha v kitkite mu, istinskoto s'rtse bl'skashe v g'rdite mu. Milionite pori po tialoto mu se raztvorikha. Naistina s'm zhiv! -- pomisli si D'glas. -- Dosega ne s'm go znael, ili s'm go bil zabravil! Izvika tova gr'mko, no bezm'lvno, pone desetina p'ti! Gledai, gledai! Veche dvanaisetgodishen i chak sega! Chak sega da otkrie tozi beztsenen chasomer, tozi svetlozlaten chasovnik, s garantsiia za sedemdeset godini, ostaven pod d'rvoto i nameren po vreme na borichkaneto. -- Tom! -- vikna toi, a setne proshepna: -- Tom... vsichki li na tozi sviat... vsichki li znaiat, che sa zhivi? -- Sigurno. Da, diavol da go vzeme!
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ray
dandelion
wine
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Ray Bradbury |
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868f0a3
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During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.
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mesopotamia
civilization
culture
wine
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Tom Standage |
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36c27cb
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When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face on the cork.
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wine
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Miriam Toews |
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475d6fa
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Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.
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violence
arguing
dysfunction
alcoholism-addiction-recovery
fighting
child
drunk
wine
mental-illness
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Mariel Hemingway |
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3afe6b5
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Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time, man's self-consciousness removed him from nature into a life of toil, doubt, fear, guilt, shame, blame, enmity, loneliness, and frailty--and the product of this separation, the fruit and flower of this exile, is, of course, culture. 'God,' said the writer Victor Hugo, 'made only water, but man made wine.
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|
religion
creation-myths
greek-mythology
culture
consciousness
wine
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Neel Burton |
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57f14c2
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Shimrod gave the boy a copper penny. 'Bring me now a goblet of good tawny wine.' By a sleight of magic Shimrod augmented the acuity of his hearing, so that the whispers of two young lovers in a far corner were now clearly audible, as were the innkeeper's instructions to Fonsel in regard to the watering of Shimrod's wine.
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wine
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Jack Vance |
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b925d0c
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However, my sense of hospitality decreases in direct proportion to the number of glasses of wine that I've had, so by dessert and coffee time I am usually far too relaxed (all right then, far too drunk, if you will insist on calling a spade a spade) and no longer feel any need to clear the table.
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wine
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Marian Keyes |
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41a435b
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... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.
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wine
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles |
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101d60c
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When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner, the convergence of his life as a writer and his life as an oenophile, the conviviality that grew as the night continued and everyone had a little too much to drink but not enough to impair the quality of the conversation, some of which, I feel sure, was about the wines themselves.
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food
wine
memory
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Anne Fadiman |
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4331ad9
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I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.
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lal
lal-after-dark
lal-alone
lalkhamsin-khamsolal
never-mind
sailor-lal
swordcane-lal
telling-stories
ghosts
wine
dying
stories
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Peter S. Beagle |
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e1fb017
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Minaloto - ne dumai! - e otvorena pokana za zloupotreba s vino.
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time-passing
wine
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Thomas Pynchon |