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Really? Au contraire

Oct. 21st, 2011 at 5:20 PM

"In all matrimonial associations there is, I believe, one constant factor—a desire to deceive the person with whom one lives as to some weak spot in one's character or in one's career. For it is intolerable to live constantly with one human being who perceives one's small meannesses. It is really death to do so—that is why so many marriages turn out unhappily."

(the narrator in "The Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford)

Tags: love, quote of the day, reading

mood: contemplative

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wytchcroft.livejournal.com

Oct. 21st, 2011 09:39 pm (UTC)

says who?

med_cat

Oct. 21st, 2011 09:49 pm (UTC)

Mr Dowell...have you read the novel or seen the film, by any chance?

wytchcroft.livejournal.com

Oct. 21st, 2011 09:52 pm (UTC)

i thought i had - but actually i don't recall the quote at all!

:)

med_cat

Oct. 21st, 2011 09:54 pm (UTC)

Yes, that novel has some interesting bits, esp. near the end...see my LJ for two more bits ;) And no, none of the three excerpts I quoted were in the film.