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"Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything."
"The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue."
"It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this."
"Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food."
"[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done.""
"Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all."
"The fancies of wine are authentic events."
"At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen."
"I like to write without being stoned. I like to have a hit or two and then go punch up the writing. I just see different things and hear different things. But it's nice to be working from the base that I wrote originally and then come to it with a little buzz. I can have a little wine from time to time. I have a hit from time to time, but those are the only things I do."
"Joy is the best of wine."
"In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields."
"Life is too short to drink the house wine."
"Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions."
"Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine."
"To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine."
"To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net."
"Wine-Counsels seldome prosper."
"Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke."
"Wine ever paies for his loding."
"Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table."
