

“See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.”
― The White Tiger
― The White Tiger

“Is it hard?'
Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament鈥攖he transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana鈥攊s a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir

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