No Literature can outdo real life

“No Literature can outdo real life in its cynicism, a wine glassful won’t make a man drunk when he has already emptied a barrel.”

Anton Chekhov

A good wine

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

What I said was

“What I said was…you never tell me about you, & you drink me up, get me up like a cup with both hands & drink yourself breathless - & - & there you are – you, you never pour me any wine of yourself –“

D. H. Lawrence