Olavo Bilac quotes

Olavo Bilac quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Give me coffee! I'm going to write!”
-- Olavo Bilac

#Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.”
“And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.”
“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
“When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”
“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”
“The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is MadhusÃ¼dana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses”

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