“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.” WritingSaidTwoEndsCreativeFlowerDrinkTasteAdvertisingBrownBottlesAdsCreative WritingSlogansSpitCigarBillboards Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.” MenEndsWaterWalksPoorHe ManDrinkSkillsFootstepsStale Book:Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain Source: Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain
“"We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"” PeopleThinkingMenWorldWaySaidEndsStoriesStrongWhitePowerfulMistakeHeardSeaLandDrinkGunSlaveWhite ManClansAbominationStrong Drink Author:Chinua Achebe
“The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.” PeopleIfsEndsCareWaterWhiteSkyLandIgnoranceDrinkSickTake CareQuagmire Author:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.” HumansWellsIdeasEndsSocialCommonDemocracyJourneyExpressionSourceDrinkEssentialsEthicsCrowdsHeatHuman ExperienceIdentificationDraught Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.” IfsWarEndsWould BeGamesLostFineDrinkBattleFine Things Author:David Gemmell