"Get it out of your head that wineâ€™s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life."

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Source : DBC Pierre (2011). “Lights Out in Wonderland: A Novel”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company

D.B.C. Pierre

#Real Quotes #Wine Quotes #Missing Quotes

“The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.”
“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.”
“This time last year I would have said Federer would beat Sampras's record. Now I'm not so sure. His aura has gone. He's not as dominant as he was, and since I beat him in Australia he's looked frustrated. Players are beginning to challenge him now, especially myself and Rafa. He's got 12 Grand Slams to his name and maybe he will beat Sampras, but now I'm here it will be tough for him.”
“I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.”
“In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.”
“I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”
“Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.”

Source : John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.173

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