"Marriage is a duet or duel."

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Emile Augier

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”
“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
“I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.”
“I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.”
“And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.”
“In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.”
“It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself but accept myself. I wanted to take myself less seriously -- and also more seriously. I wanted to use my time well, but I also wanted to wander, to play, to read at whim. I wanted to think about myself so I could forget myself. I was always on the edge of agitation; I wanted to let go of envy and anxiety about the future, yet keep my energy and ambition.”
“Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.”

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