Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of living fully and enjoying life, rather than hoarding experiences or possessions.
Jay McInerney's quote speaks to the idea that life should be lived to the fullest, using the metaphor of wine bottles to represent experiences and moments that should be savored. The statement suggests that, unlike art that can be appreciated indefinitely, experiences must be engaged with actively; one should strive to reach the end of life having fully enjoyed what it has to offer rather than holding back and leaving things unexperienced.
In practice
During a motivational speech about life choices.
Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.
I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.
So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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