Sheldon: “So, that’s how this works? I complain then you complain and no one offers any solutions?”
Leonard: “Pretty Much.”
Sheldon: “No wonder the women are winning.
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The Big Bang Theory (The Launch Acceleration)
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It is universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going ok, another falls spectacularly to pieces.
It was like a broken promise. The fisherman’s wound, never heals.
As Hamlet said to Ophelia, “God has given you one face and you make yourself another.” The battle between these two halves of identity, who we are and who we pretend to be, is unwinnable.
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Emily Thorne, Revenge
“Keeping Up Appearances”
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Men don’t take the time to end things. They just ignore you until you insist on a declaration of hate.
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Joan Holloway, Mad Men
“At the Codfish Ball”
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