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"In the end, it's not even about working in the office. It's about being thrown together with random people for eight hours a day and all the tensions that come with that. Those themes are universal."

"That resonates huge with an audience because they're in on the joke, because the world around them is a joke. They are not surrounded by a world of jokes."

"it wasn't afraid of boredom and silence. Those things can be powerful tools if you use them correctly."

"And I think one of the secret weapons of the show is that not only is the humor dry, but the show is literally dry. There's no music."

“If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well know to each other, or ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation”

“‘You mistake me, my dear. I have high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Love is so much harder to understand - and predict - than hate.”

“She looks now at Henry and realizes she doesn’t actually know what goes through his mind most of the time. She makes assumptions, that’s all.”

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”

“She was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of ideas in her head”
- sense and sensibility

“He had just compunction enough for having down nothing for his sisters himself; to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal; and an offer from Colonel Brandon, or a legacy from Mrs. Jennings, was the easiest means of atoning for his own neglect.”

“Like half the rest of the world, if more than half there be that are clever and good”

“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”

“common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood’s romantic delicacy.”

“You has rather take evil on credit than good.”

“Yes I have explained it to myself in the most satisfactory way; - but you, Elinor, who love to doubt where you can. - It will not satisfy you”
- sense and sensibility

“They were all in high spirits and good humour, eager to be happy, and determined to submit to the greatest inconveniences and hardships rather than be otherwise.”
- sense and sensibility

“That when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outrage than usually happens.”
- sense and sensibility

“‘I don’t believe,’ said Mrs. Dashwood, with a good-humored smile, ‘that Mr. Willoughby will be incommoded by the attempts of either of my daughters towards what you call catching him. It is not an employment to which they have been brought up. Men are very safe with us, let them be ever so rich.’”

“It would be an excellent match, for he was rich and she was handsome.”
- sense and sensibility

“He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed”
- sense and sensibility

But ultimately her mocking but affectionate portrayal of the follies and paradoxes of human existence ensure that as long as men and women are able to laugh at themselves as they fall in love, Austen’s timeless novels will remain dearly beloved to admirers around the world.”

“Precisely because she never mentioned the momentous historical events of her time, her novels reveal the importance of shifts in social relationships between classes and genders...

“In Darcy, Austen involves the hero equally in the lessons to be learned, thereby convincing her readers - contemporary and modern, British and international, young and old, male and female - that it is not only women who are incomplete without marriage and who receive all the benefits of love.”

“As with weeds, it’s hard to keep men like him down for long.”

“Start here, please, in communion with one another despite our differences, recognizing that without start there is no end.”

“A trial would be futility made into a spectacle.”

“No. If you plead guilty when you’re not, you’re giving away every piece of you that matters. Pride. Integrity. You’re giving away your freedom. Just handing it over as if it means nothing to you, like they deserve it, like your fine with wearing chains as if you’re a dangerous animal.”

“You couldn’t play this song this way unless your heart was double-size.”