Quote#Time
That other supreme American gift to world culture, the martini…
Quote byBernard DeVoto · 1897–1955
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Easy Chair, "Whiskey Is for Patriots", in Harper's, vol. 202, no. 1211 (April, 1951), p. 71. Collected in The Hour (1951), ch. 1 (p. 22).
English (original)
That other supreme American gift to world culture, the martini cocktail, will do only at its own hour — when darkness begins to fall from the wings of night and the heart cries out for a swift healing.
— Bernard DeVoto
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