Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 97
“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31
Context: I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
“All the world knows that France sneezes when England takes a pinch of snuff.”
Diary of a Madman (1835)
Conference with his officers (1 August 1944), as quoted in General Patton : A Soldiers Life (2002) by Stanley P. Hirshon, p. 502
State v. Beal http://books.google.com/books?id=lEFOAQAAIAAJ&q=%22it+would+be+almost+unbelievable+if+history+did+not+record+the+tragic+fact+that+men+have+gone+to+war+and+cut+each+other's+throats+because+they+could+not+agree+as+to+what+was+to+become+of+them+after+their+throats+were+cut%22&pg=PA302#v=onepage, 199 N.C. 278 (1930).
"Appeasing Islam" (8 March 2008)
2008
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
