THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine is ... their ugliness ... their p...ink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuum ... their fake health, their fake youthfulness ... the way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention.... A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in th...e slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack ... to the feast, from the conversation at the local café to the speech at a formal dinnerLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did a...nd why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A favorite of outdoor alcoholics, connoisseurs and Fundamentalists, these pills turn water into wine. In 10 minutes the most fetid... swamp scum in the forest can become modest red, elusive and light on first taste, yet playful--one might say a trifle impudent--on the afterbite. Saves pack space by eliminating need for bulky corkscrew, decanter and bottles. Store pills on their sides in a cool dark place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out o...f our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »