“Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)”
Source: The Princess Bride
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American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931–2018Related quotes
“The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”
“Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.”
"A Study of Reading Habits" (20 August 1960)
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
"Hunting for Euphemisms: How We Trick Ourselves to Excuse Killing", in The Atlantic (21 December 2011) https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/hunting-for-euphemisms-how-we-trick-ourselves-to-excuse-killing/250213/.
Quote of Naum Gabo (1962), as cited in: Carel Blotkamp, Piet Mondrian (1994) Mondriaan: destructie als kunst
1936 - 1977
Mr. Scratch
Source: The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
Context: When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on her deck. Am I not in your books and stories and beliefs, from the first settlements on? Am I not spoken of, still, in every church in New England? 'Tis true the North claims me for a Southerner and the South for a Northerner, but I am neither. I am merely an honest American like yourself — and of the best descent — for, to tell the truth, Mr. Webster, though I don't like to boast of it, my name is older in this country than yours.
“Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Outside the curtained windows, Paris stewed in its miasma of self-congratulation and diesel fumes.”
Source: Hunter/Victim (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 11)