"Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it."

-- Chris O'Dowd

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“I do believe in fate.”
“Thank God she wasnâ€™t still hanging out in her underpants.”
“You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.”
“Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots”
“Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.”

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“We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.”
“I never try to follow a trend or fashion.”
“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”

Source : Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.39, Random House

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