A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Wine Alcohol Getting drunk Good company

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 3, ch. 19.

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The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

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Suffering The human condition

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Ernest Hemingway
Source
A Farewell to Arms
Medium
Novel
Genre
War novel
Language
English
Time
1929 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 4, ch. 34.

Current Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Scribners, 1995, bk. 4, ch. 34.

Another quote from the 1920s

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Nature of love

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Marcel Proust
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Sodom and Gomorrah In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah. Paris: Grasset/Gallimard, 1921-1922.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.

Another quote about Alcohol

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Homer Simpson

The Simpsons

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Alcohol Solving problems
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Homer Simpson
Actor
Dan Castellaneta
Source
The Simpsons
Medium
TV program
Genre
Comedy (TV) Comedy
Statement Type
Toast
Language
English
Time
1997 1990s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

"Homer vs. the 18th Amendment." The Simpsons, written by Matt Groening and James L. Brooks and Sam Simon, directed by Bob Anderson, season 8, episode 18, Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television, 1997.