"We drank our coffee the Russian way. That……" — Philip Sington
"We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards."
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Philip Sington
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12 Quotes by Philip Sington
Philip Sington has 12 quotes on this site.
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The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.
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I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth…
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I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
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To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
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One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what…
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One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is…
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I wanted her body and soul, but body first.
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Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the…
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The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per…
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And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and…
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All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on…
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More Afterwards Quotes
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
— Teresa of Avila
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine…
— Honore de Balzac
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
— Shana Alexander
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won…
— Amy Chua
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.…
— Winston Churchill
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on…
— Thomas Aquinas
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