“It's hot. And there's a lot of it. I like everything about it except the flavor.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
Bill Budd, on the ship's gruel.
Billy Budd (1962)
“He liked everything about the university except the students.”
— Larry Niven, book The Mote in God's Eye
Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 19 “Channel Two’s Popularity” (p. 162)
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