This article contains character information for the American television sitcom Perfect Strangers.
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“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
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“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
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—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Now they are together
like strangers in a two-seater outhouse,
eating and squatting together.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.”
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