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    Robert Frost
    “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: reading, writing
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    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, philosophy
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    Richard Dawkins
    “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh
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    George Carlin
    “What wine goes with Captain Crunch?”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, wine
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “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.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
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    Paulo Coelho
    “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.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Brida
    tags: advice, experience, life, variety, wine
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    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    ― W.C. Fields
    tags: cooking, drinking, food, humor, wine
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    John Keats
    “Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: books, wine
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: wine
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    Kenny Chesney
    “it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!”
    ― Kenny Chesney
    tags: kiss, smile, summer, wine
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “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.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
    tags: food, wine
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    E.E. Cummings
    “his lips drink water
    but his heart drinks wine”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: drinking, wine
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
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    Rachel Hawkins
    “I should say upfront that I have never been in a cellar in my life. In fact, I can see no reason why anyone should ever go into a cellar unless there is wine involved.”
    ― Rachel Hawkins, Hex Hall
    tags: wine
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    Martin Luther
    “Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: beer, wine
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    Russell Brand
    “We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”
    ― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
    tags: heroin, marijuana, wine
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    Louis Pasteur
    “Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
    ― Louis Pasteur
    tags: alcohol, bacteria, drinking, health, wine
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    Charles Bukowski
    “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.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, South of No North
    tags: humor, war, wine
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I like on the table,
    when we're speaking,
    the light of a bottle
    of intelligent wine.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: wine
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    Mark Twain
    “High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: literature, water, wine
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    Pliny the Elder
    “In wine, there's truth.”
    ― Pliny the Elder, Pliny: Natural History IV
    tags: truth, wine
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!”
    ― Jalaluddin Rumi
    tags: wine
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    William Shakespeare
    “I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: love, wine
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    Homer
    “[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
    the wild wine
    that sets the wisest man to sing
    at the top of his lungs,
    laugh like a fool – it drives the
    man to dancing... it even
    tempts him to blurt out stories
    better never told.”
    ― Homer, The Odyssey
    tags: alcohol, storytelling, truth, wine
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    Scott Lynch
    “If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
    ― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
    tags: humor, wine
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    W.B. Yeats
    “Wine enters through the mouth,
    Love, the eyes.
    I raise the glass to my mouth,
    I look at you,
    I sigh.”
    ― William Butler Yeats
    tags: love, wine
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    Lord Byron
    “Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
    Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
    ― Lord Byron, Don Juan
    tags: song, wine, women
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: wine
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Wine makes all things possible.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, The Mystery Knight
    tags: knight, wine
    73 likes

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    D.H. Lawrence
    “If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”
    ― D. H. Lawrence
    tags: wine
    63 likes



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