The Coffee Chronicles

Quotes from Everywhere and Nowhere, on Contradictions, Existence and Nothingness

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Men Wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success.

Ad in the London newspaper The Times, from Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) to put together his Antarctic expedition (1914-1917).

The ad maybe a myth, but the adventure was real, and it exemplifies the spirit of inspiration and endurance.

“We're drinking history!”

Eddie Sahakian, enjoying a rare Richard Hennessy cognac with Kirby Allison

Kirby Allison: Inside London's Best Cigar Lounge, With Eddie Sahakian, 31 August 2022

“The Prussian Monarchy is not a country that has an army, but an army that has a country”

Quotation often attributed to Count Mirabeau

Late 18th Century

"Peace, the charm's wound up."

Uttering of the three witches, at the end of Orson Welles' 1948 movie Macbeth, adapted from The Tragedie of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare.

Orson Welles, 1948; William Shakespeare, early 17th Century

"It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled."

Quote often attributed to Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910),

also known as Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

Rear Admiral David Farragut

Order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama, U.S., August 5, 1864

''Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead''

''It's a machine that encourages hospitality; you want to make way more espressos than you can drink.''

James Hoffmann

Review: The Olympia Cremia, May 12, 2020

“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”

Quote often attributed to Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910),

also known as Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

"That’s how I started, I began at the top. And I have been working my way down ever since."

Orson Welles

F for Fake, 1973

"Why the heck did history decide to stop repeating just when I needed it???"

Scott Adams

Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America, November 2019

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