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 »
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 was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cau...se you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.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 »