Guilherme Martins > Guilherme's Quotes

“It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great poet before the revolution. So was Anna Akhmatova, so was Marina Tsvetaeva. They would have become what they became even if none of the historical events that befell Russia in this century had taken place: because they were gifted. Basically, talent doesn't need history.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”
― Samuel Johnson

“I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The world is so enormous, but if you have places where they know what you like to drink, then all is well.”
― Meg Wolitzer

“Whisky is liquid sunshine.”
― George Bernard Shaw