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This morning's "Art of the Poach" installment contained too much agency-abandoning nastiness to truly capture the Zen of the pullquotes from the New Yorker profile of "unorthodox" William Morris president Dave Wirtschafter. So here's today's proper, context-free quote:

For many years, talent agents were widely derided as lowlifes who took ten percent of their clients’ income and gave little in return. In the nineteen-thirties, legend had it that agents wouldn’t order tomato juice in public, lest someone joke that they were drinking their clients’ blood.

Today's bonus misspelling of "Dave Wirtschafter": Danny Waltstatler.