“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”
Iris Murdoch book A Severed Head
A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 181.
“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”
As quoted in On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes (2004) by Paula Munier, p. 69
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