I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

Alice McDermott
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. - William Shakespeare

  2. Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh. - W.b. Yeats

  3. Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. - Paulo Coelho

  4. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. - W.C. Fields

  5. I am not sure I trust you."" You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back. - Megan Whalen Turner

More Quotes By Alice McDermott
  1. If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of the prarie or the plain, witness the reaction of a modern suburban family, nearly ready for bed, when the doorbell rings...

  2. It made it easier that they both believed in the simplest kind of afterlife - that my father could say to her, even in those last days, joking but without irony, 'You're going to get tired of hearing from me. I'll be asking you for...

  3. But Mrs. Meany, see, the women went on, leaning forward, despite how her heart was broken, pulled herself together, anyway, to put on a good face for the rest of the family at home. And she went back, Sunday after Sunday, right up until the...

  4. His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend out first hours among the heavenly hosts settling...

  5. His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were all his unnamed fears for them, and hopes for them. There was all he was powerless to change, including who they were--one too mild, one too...

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