"He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me."

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Source : 'Dèjeuner du Matin'

Jacques Prevert

#Coffee Quotes #White Quotes #Tea Quotes

“Men should have rough hands and be strong.”
“Some things just couldn't be protected from the storm. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once the old things were broken off, amazingly beautiful things grow in their place.”
“Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.”
“Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and to shame one into better ways.”
“Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.”
“To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.”

Source : Andrzej Sapkowski (2010). “Blood of Elves”, p.122, Hachette UK
“Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.”
“There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.”

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