You have to be serious if you want to be in love. You have … - Anthony Shaffer

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You have to be serious if you want to be in love.
You have to be serious about crime if you want to afford to be in love.

Anthony Shaffer

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Anthony Joshua Shaffer (15 May 1926 – 6 November 2001) was an English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister, and advertising executive. He is best remembered for his Tony Award winning play Sleuth, and its acclaimed 1972 film adaptation. His screenplays included Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy and folk horror The Wicker Man.

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Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without having watched a single regular-season football game all year. Some people watch the Super Bowl exclusively for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.

You seem to regard marriage as a game, sir.
Not marriage, Inspector. Sex. Sex is the game with marriage the penalty.

You were disparaging my lover.
On the contrary, I was reminiscing about my wife.
It comes to the same thing.
Things mostly do, you know.

You have to be serious if you want to be in love. You have to be serious about crime if you want to afford to be in love. - Anthony Shaffer

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