To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even... more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanity the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take the pot. Fill it with a couple of bottles of dry white wine. Turn the heat on and when it's just lukewarm you put the live lo...bster in the warm wine. He likes that. That is one happy lobster. Keep turning the heat up. By the time that the wine is bubbling the lobster doesn't give a shit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know.... I admire l...olling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that--one is sure to get into some mess before evening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is c...ommonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dancers crowded about him And many a sweet thing said,... And a young man brought him red wine And a young girl white bread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the white, tremendous foam of the street has any importance, The new white flowers that are beginning to shoot up about ...now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »