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我不在家，就在咖啡館；不在咖啡館，就在去咖啡館的路上

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＂我不在家，就在咖啡館；不在咖啡館，就在去咖啡館的路上＂
耳熟能響的一句咖啡詩　早期時候成為每家咖啡館的座右銘
打開咖啡館的門　翻閱咖啡館Menu上　必會標上這麼一句經典名言　才算是一套完整的咖啡館概念
不標上的話　就不算是正宗咖啡館
陳腔濫調的詩句　以為老梗的＂爛漫＂　
既使基因無法容納咖啡因的人　也能模模糊糊的兜滿整句話
不過誰才是講這句話的第一人呢　能喊出創作者名字的寥寥無幾
　
Wenn der Altenberg nicht im Kaffeehaus ist, 
ist er am Weg dorthin （德文）
　　　　　                      Peter Altenberg

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←我不在家，就在咖啡館；不在咖啡館，就在去咖啡館的路上
　的正宗創作者彼得‧艾騰貝格　1859-1919　
　原名Richard Engländer　奧地利作家




Peter Altenberg奧地利作家　原句以德文寫成
（為何一個奧地利作家在維也納喝咖啡卻以德文寫成此詩？？我百思不解）
＂我不在家　就在咖啡館........＂
哪家咖啡館誘惑詩人販賣他的靈魂給咖啡因　換取永恆的文字音符
中央咖啡館　維也納著名的Cafe Central
根據網民爭相編輯的資料
相傳Peter Altenberg每天睜眼離開床就到Cafe Central報到
一整天都在咖啡館裡做能夠在咖啡館裡從事的所有行為　
當然　包括最重要的創作　也因此Peter Altenberg被封為Cafe Writer
這位奧地利重度咖啡癮作家最讓我佩服的事
不只活在中央咖啡館　連死也禁錮在咖啡館中　
為了紀念生死不渝　比門神還忠誠的Peter Altenberg　
Cafe Central將他的形象和生前最愛的桌椅放在門口

←Cafe Central門口的Peter Altenberg
　形象和生前最愛的桌椅

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Peter Altenberg生前的樣貌和
他最愛的桌椅


  維也納著名的Cafe Central

 

 除了Peter Altenberg的咖啡名言
尚有其他的作家　因著咖啡因癮而祭出文字
以後在店門外　放個小黑板　來個每日一句　假裝一下文藝氣息

FAMOUS COFFEE QUOTES

Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and as sweet as love.

Turkish proverb

 

Brewing espresso... unlike other methods of brewing coffee...IS rocket science...

Kevin Knox and Julie Sheldon Huffaker, Authors

 

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Christopher Fry, British playwright

 

After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee," one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Mark Twain

 

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Honore de Balzac

 

Look here Steward, if this is coffee, I want tea; but if this is tea, then I wish for coffee.

Punch

 

It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

Frederick the Great of Prussia

 

This Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall cheat Satan by baptizing it.

Anonymous, 16th century

 

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee.

Stephanie Piro

 

Amen to that!

Sassy the cow

 

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

Claudia Roden

 

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

Charles de Secondat Montesquieu

 

On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Porto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass... and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.

Larie Colwin

 

Now, that sounds a bit obsessive to me.... pardon me while I check my beans, the drum is turning a little too slowly!

Sassy the cow

 

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

Alex Levine

 

Amen to that, too!

Sassy the cow

 

To drink is human, to drink coffee is divine!

Another anonymous guy

 

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

Diane Ackerman

 

Bitter? Your brew cycle is too long then, you moron.

Sassy the cow

 

As with art 'tis prepared, so one should drink it with art.

Arabic Proverb

 

He was my cream, and I was his coffee

And when you poured us together, it was something.

Josephine Baker

 

A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent.

Yet another anonymous guy

 

0 Coffee! Thou dost dispel all care, thou are the object of desire to the scholar. This is the beverage of the friends of God.

Arabic poem

 

Coffee tastes better with a friend.

Anonymous, again

 

Coffee and love taste best when hot.

Ethiopian proverb

 

Yeah, baby! Yeah!

Sassy the cow

 

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similies arise, the paper is covered with ink.

Honoré de Balzac

 

The drawback of office automation is the use of computers to improve efficiency by removing anyone you would want to talk with over coffee.

Author unknown

 

Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend.

Anonymous

 

Dude, that's harsh!

Sassy the cow

 

Chocolate, men, coffee: some things are better rich.

Another anonymous

 

Do not drink coffee in early a.m. It will keep you awake until noon.

Yet another anonymous

 

A morning without coffee is like sleep.

Author unknown

 

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.

Another author unknown

 

Given enough coffee, I could rule the world.

And another author unknown, although it is suspected that Sassy the cow actually made this statement in a campus coffee house in the 60s.