“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Friday
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 6 (p. 49)
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
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