“You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Welcoming decorator Billy Baldwin to the island of Skorpios; quoted in Ari (1986) by Peter Evans

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public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Ke… 1929–1994

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