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Wine is poetry in a bottle.
Wine is a civilizing agent.
We are all citizens of history.
If you want to feel at home, stay home.
Being a child is in itself a profession.
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
Reading to small children is a specialty.
Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.