“There are two things in life that keep me motivated, a cup of coffee and a second cup of coffee.”
Craig Benzine (1980) Filmmaker, comedian, presenter
Source: Robert Galinsky (2013) Coffee Crazy, p. 88
“I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'... I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.”
Source: 1980's, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art world of Our Time, 1980, p. 89
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