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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion.Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.
--Claudia Roden
I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time.
--Steven Wright
To drink is human, to drink coffee is divine!
--Unknown
On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Porto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee.
Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm.
Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it.
I decanted my beans into glass... and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.
--Larie Colwin, Home Cooking
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
--Alex Levine
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
in a crowded London shop,
an open book and empty cup
on the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
my body of a sudden blazed;
and twenty minutes more or less
it seemed, so great my happiness,
that I was blessèd and could bless.
--W. B. Yeats, from "Vacillation"
When from a long-distant past nothing subsists, . . . still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.
--Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
The wine improves. . . the candles begin to flicker.
There is bitter black coffee, sitting carelessly beside the last bits of cheese, the last freckled crumbs of bread upon the cloth.
--M.F.K. Fisher, "An Alphabet for Gourmets"
I never laugh until I've had my coffee.
--Clark Gable, "No Man of Her Own"
Thank you for your coffee, seignor.
I shall miss that when we leave Casablanca.
--Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca"
UPDATED ON 12/10/04
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