Bottles – Quotes

I ask myself how

I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks … Read more

He wasn’t a complete

He wasn’t a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit … Read more

There is not way

There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren’t awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don’t pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life … Read more

When I demanded of

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird! Eugene Field

I found that a

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up. Ethel Waters

There is no night

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid … Read more

I drank a bottle

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company. Ernest Hemingway

A bottle of wine

A bottle of wine was good company. Ernest Hemingway

Never delay kissing a

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey Ernest Hemingway

I was a closet

I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on … Read more