"There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The cafÃ© and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Annia Ciezadlo

#Song Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Book Quotes

“I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl.”
“Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. And shower. You reek like the dead." Which, coming from a vampire, was pretty rich.”
“Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.”

Source : Ken Livingstone (1987). “If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it”, HarperCollins
“First, In showing in how to avoid attempting impossibilities. Second, In securing us from important mistakes in attempting what is, in itself possible, by means either inadequate or actually opposed to the end in view. Thirdly, In enabling us to accomplish our ends in the easiest, shortest, most economical, and most effectual manner. Fourth, In inducing us to attempt, and enabling us to accomplish, object which, but for such knowledge, we should never have thought of understanding. On the ways that a knowledge of the order of nature can be of use.”
“A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.”
“The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.”
“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.”

Source : William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press
“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.”

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