"Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?"

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
“Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.57, Duncan Baird Publishers
“I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.”
“If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.”
“You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.”
“Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.”
“If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.”

Source : Sergei Dovlatov (2014). “Pushkin Hills”, p.141, Counterpoint
“Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.”

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