"Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some……" — Jay McInerney
"Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up."
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Jay McInerney
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52 Quotes by Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney has 52 quotes on this site.
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He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.
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You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them…
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You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop…
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Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.
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There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
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If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers…
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A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for…
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Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt…
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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers…
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There aren't many shy writers left.
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More Bottle Quotes
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and…
— Lewis Black
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I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'
— Christina Aguilera
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I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.
— Charles Bronson
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To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage…
— Sophia Bush
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I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of…
— Drew Carey
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,'…
— Adam Carolla
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
— Winston Churchill
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I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and…
— Diablo Cody
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done,…
— Maya Angelou
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