“To my mother, pouring the morning coffee was a secret ritual—irrigating the garden, she called it.”
— Rabih Alameddine, The Half-Wall (2011), reprinted in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond (2013), , p. 64
“For a writer, it's more essential than food.”
— Joan Frank, "Achieving Legal Liftoff", in The San Francisco Examiner Image, 1991. Quoted in The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, ed. Rosalie Maggio.
“Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”
— David Letterman, in Bill Zehme, "Letterman Lets His Guard Down". Esquire, December 1994. Quoted in Quotationary, ed. Leonard Roy Frank.
“Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your slightly older self.”
— Terry Pratchett, Thud!
“[C]offee was designed for man's sustenance and happiness as much as the golden grain, or the delicious fruits of mother earth.”
— Introductory to Ch. 1
“No "food drink" has ever encountered so much opposition as coffee. ...During the thousand years of its development it has experienced fierce political opposition, stupid fiscal restrictions, unjust taxes, irksome duties; but, surviving all of these, it has triumphantly moved on to a foremost place in the catalog of popular beverages.”
— Forward

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