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Book: The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
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  1. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    He was constantly, pathologically, insanely busy. That's how he afforded the wine.
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  2. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    he never had fewer than seven jobs and at one point had thirteen.
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  3. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    to take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history,
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  4. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    I have never met a miserly wine lover.
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  5. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    wine stores should organize their bottles not by origin and varietal but by alcohol content and intensity of flavor,
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    When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner, the convergence of his life as a writer and his life as an oenophile, the conviviality that grew as the night continued and everyone had a little too much to drink but not enough to impair the quality of the conversation, some of which, I feel sure, was about the wines themselves."
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  7. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    Shakespeare was an anti-Semite,
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  8. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    Bordeaux are named after châteaux. Castles.
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  9. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    Their tastes change not because their palates improve but because they deteriorate.
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  10. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    Benjamin Franklin wrote that he would like to be embalmed in a cask of Madeira
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    we expect a wine of quality to demand something from us.
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  12. Anne Fadiman _ The Wine Lover's Daughter: A

    To nature lovers, the season of new beginnings is the spring, but to people who excel in school, it's the fall.
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