"I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it."

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Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

Adam Hochschild

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“Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?”
“There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.”
“The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.”

Source : Peter Bodo (1995). “The Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in a Harsh New World of Professional Tennis”, Scribner Book Company
“We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.”
“To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.”
“I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.”
“If things donâ€™t seem right, try going left.â€ â€“ Chloe Traeger”
“There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.”

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