“Do you think you’ll be able to shirk unpleasant things all your life, Phil?” “Dear me, no. Am I not up against them now? You don’t call Alec and Alonzo pleasant things, do you, when they simply plague my life out?” “You never take anything seriously, Phil.” “Why should I? There are enough folks who do. The world needs people like me, Anne, just to amuse it. It would be a terrible place if everybody were intellectual and serious and in deep, deadly earnest.
