"Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his."

-- William Lloyd Garrison

#Wine Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #World Quotes

“Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.”
“I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.”
“If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.”
“At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.”
“It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.”

Source : Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume
“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

Source : CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”
“I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.”
“During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.”

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