"Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about"

-- Edward VII

#Drinking Quotes #Wine Quotes #Talking Quotes

“The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.”
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
“The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.”
“Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.”
“The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.”

Source : Gail Godwin, Shannon Ravenel (1985). “The Best American short stories, 1985”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula)”
“Always act the part â€” and you can become whatever you wish to become!”
“The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.”

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