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I'll read just about anything.

Favorite Quotations:

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). Almansor 1.245

I drink my Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it... more »

I'll read just about anything.

Favorite Quotations:

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). Almansor 1.245

I drink my Champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty.
Madame Jacques Bollinger dite "Tante Lily", au London Daily mail, le 17 Octobre 1961.

Le superflu, chose très nécessaire.
Voltaire (1694-1778). Le mondain, l.22.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 a.C.). Aeneidos. l.203.

‘Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα, τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θἐλω.’
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (ca. 27–66). Satyricon Libri, Caput XLVIII.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio, et excrucior.
Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC). Carmen 85. « less