Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock

Author:Donald Sturrock [Sturrock, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416550828
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

Charles’s reply, although couched in his customary bizarre ethical generalities, was also perceptive and to the point. He blamed the problem on what he called “presumptive incompatibility.”

Your last line, it’s probably all my fault, is inaccurate. What you want is complete sincerity and you both have it. What she wants is complete serenity and neither of you have had it during the past weeks at least. So what is, and where does serenity start and how is it kept going? Why naturally by service to others. But if each of the two people in the marriage stake don’t put in a hell of a lot of service to one another they will go bankrupt with great rapidity as they think of their own affairs.

What you want in a wife is what I have right now. You want a woman to think of you 80% of the time and to work like hell on the 80% without asking you for direction. You and I as males are willing to admit it to each other but we will never tell any woman what we want. We want this service deluxe done so graciously that we think a conversation about it vulgar if not stupid.91

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