"Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die."

-- Julia Child

#Wine Quotes #Maturity Quotes #Age Quotes

“I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.”
“Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.”
“[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.56, VM eBooks
“But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy”
“How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?”
“I feel most peopleâ€™s sexuality is enormously complicated. Thatâ€™s what it means to be human. Wouldnâ€™t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldnâ€™t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?”
“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press
“The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.”

Source : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.358

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