"I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement."

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While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

— Steve Erickson