“The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking.”
Source: Dreamsongs, Volume I
“We go down the hall again, thank heaven, to my drink.”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“Anyone who tells you they only drink wine old enough to have been bottled by their grandfather is an insecure snob who has never had the sublime pleasure of a box of wine at a barbecue.”
Source: The Temptation of Eden
“...de aztán eszébe jutott, hogy az ital nagy egyenlősítő, mindig is összehozott össze nem illő embereket.”
Source: Beyond the Himalayas
“Who's Johnnie Walker?"
"It's a drink. For grown-ups."
"Is it nice?"
"Makes you drunk."
"What's it like being drunk?"
"Like being awake and asleep at the same time."
"Sounds nice."
"It was meant to sound terrible," he said looking down his glasses at her. "You get sick and stagger around. People actually vomit sometimes.”
Source: The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
“Those similar to thee works happen
liesin even if it is corrected. Life
full of hatred.”
“You don’t need to be drunk all the time to become an alcoholic
! . . . It’s that little drink before dinner. That’s what gradually poisons
your whole system ! . . .”
Source: Amédée, ya da nasıl başından atarsın onu
“Of all the places, bars are the most intriguing. The world will be a too lousy place to be without bars in it.”
“Ah—sake, sake, sake—up to now I’ve lived for sake, and this is what it’s gotten me! Sake—devil or buddha, poison or curative?”
Source: For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with Excerpts from His Diary
“I learned a valuable lesson that God seems to have weaved into all his creation, and it is this: boundaries lead to freedom. Adam and Eve, in order to enjoy their garden freedom, had to maintain a boundary of not eating from the tree in the middle of the garden. I implemented boundaries, and that is where I felt freedom.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy