"Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best."

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Source : Bernard DeVoto (2010). “The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto”, p.62, Tin House Books

Bernard DeVoto

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“We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.”
“A journey is a fragment of Hell.”
“The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding this individual throughout their life.”
“The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.”
“Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today.”

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“For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“On a good day I write, all day.”

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