"Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares"
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"Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape"
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"You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective."
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"Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish."
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"It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb."
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"Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost."
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"He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper."
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"A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine."
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"In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence."
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"If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame."
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"Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine."
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"[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine."
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"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap."
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"We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good."
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"I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest."
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"A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe."
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"[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!"
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"The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!"
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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
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"Free thyself from the mighty attraction- The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex. Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . ."
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