Quotable Saturday: Confident fools
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
-Charles Bukowski
This quote more or less sums up Prue's relationship with her then-fiance, Roger. Sure, they looked like a well-matched, polished pair, but Prue was driven toward Roger, her boss at the first full-time salaried job she ever held, out of her worry about how to make her way in the world, out of her love-hate attitude toward convention (which at the time was swinging toward love), out of her barely acknowledged need for a mentor. And she was driven away by his clumsy, bald-faced, yet smiling smooth lies. Let alone the actual act itself -- to this day she isn't sure how far he tried to go, not that it matters -- cheating on your fiance with the little sister she's got a rocky relationship with was the stupid person's idea of brilliant. She'd regained her own confidence by then, from the shock of his betrayal (hell, from the effort needed to disentangle the blame! she'd never forgive him for that), to the effort she put in day by day simply showing its worth and hers. Phoebe coming home was the last straw though. Prue couldn't harbor doubts about her own sister and put up with another of Roger's passive-aggressive power plays. Not at once. Not again.
-Charles Bukowski
This quote more or less sums up Prue's relationship with her then-fiance, Roger. Sure, they looked like a well-matched, polished pair, but Prue was driven toward Roger, her boss at the first full-time salaried job she ever held, out of her worry about how to make her way in the world, out of her love-hate attitude toward convention (which at the time was swinging toward love), out of her barely acknowledged need for a mentor. And she was driven away by his clumsy, bald-faced, yet smiling smooth lies. Let alone the actual act itself -- to this day she isn't sure how far he tried to go, not that it matters -- cheating on your fiance with the little sister she's got a rocky relationship with was the stupid person's idea of brilliant. She'd regained her own confidence by then, from the shock of his betrayal (hell, from the effort needed to disentangle the blame! she'd never forgive him for that), to the effort she put in day by day simply showing its worth and hers. Phoebe coming home was the last straw though. Prue couldn't harbor doubts about her own sister and put up with another of Roger's passive-aggressive power plays. Not at once. Not again.