Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Liquidating Love in Eight Words

Quite possibly the silliest line ever spoken, and one which any sane director would have left on the cutting room floor, was an eight-word sentence from the movie Love Story, which struck even a fellow as callow as I was back in 1970 when I first heard Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal take turns saying it, as just about the dumbest thing I’d ever heard. Of course, the line went instantly viral…

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