Writers Express Their Opinions About the Revered Bean
“It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid,” wrote Coleman Dowell adding, “Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”
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“There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods,” said Knut Hamsun, adding “To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.”
“If only the wonderfulness of hot coffee,” mused Jill K. Shellabarger, “could still be appreciated in the heat of summer.”
“Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films,” said Stephen Fry, adding “But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.”
“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things,” said Gary Snyder, “They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
“Coffee's power changes over time,” said Honore de Balzac in the Pleasures and Pains of Coffee, adding “Rossini [the Italian composer Gioacchino] has personally experienced some of these effects as, of course, have I.” De Balzac continues, “‘Coffee,' Rossini told me, ‘is an affair of fifteen or twenty days; just the right amount of time, fortunately, to write an opera.'” De Balzac finally concludes, “This is true. But the length of time during which one can enjoy the benefits of coffee can be extended.”
“The use (of coffee) will probably become greatly extended - as in other countries,” said Benjamin Moseley in 1785 adding, “it may diffuse itself among the mass of the people and make a considerable ingredient in their daily sustenance.”
“In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee,” said Paula Danziger, adding, “But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.”
“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee,” said Zora Neale Hurston, adding “it is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”
“It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid,” stated Coleman Dowell in Mrs. October Was Here, adding “Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”
“Coffee is real good when you drink it it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening,” said Gertrude Stein, adding “Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.”
“I think we all pray to the first cup of the day. It's a silent prayer, sung while the mind is still foggy and blue,” said Stewart Lee Allen, adding, “‘O Magic Cup,' it mgiht go, ‘carry me above the traffic jam. Keep me civil in the subway. And forgive my employer, as you forgive me. Amen.'”
“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without knowledge of tea and coffee,” said Isabella Beeton adding, “and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions.”
Beeton added, “But it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects, and it is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seed for and discover the means of replacing them.”
“Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis,” said Alexander King adding, “a good hot cup of coffee.”
“Coffee is to wake up,” said Tim Parsons adding, “coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is to life.”
“A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach,” said Leonhard Rauwolf in the 1570s adding, “This they drink in the morning early in the open places before everybody, without any fear or regard, out of clay or China cups, as hot as they can, sipping a little at a time.”
“No coffee can be good in the mouth,” said Henry Ward Beecher, “that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.”
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