“‘But Piers, why did you choose him of all people? I shouldn’t have thought you had anything in common.’
“‘This having things in common,’ said Piers impatiently, ‘how overrated it is! Long dreary intellectual conversations, capping each other’s obscure quotations–it’s so exhausting. It’s much more agreeable to come home to some different remarks from the ones one’s been hearing all day.'”
Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings