(Gilmore Girls fan site)In the episode “It Should've Been Lorelai,” in reference to Marcel Proust.
RORY: We have leftover Halloween candy.
LORELAI: Aw, waste that on company?
RORY: Well, having company is about making sacrifices.
LORELAI: Martha Stewart?
RORY: I paraphrased Proust.
This is possibly based on a line from Proust’s The Sweet Cheat Gone:
“One must be prepared to make sacrifices, however painful they may be, for the thing to which one attaches most importance, which is, in spite of everything that I decided this morning, on the strength of my scrupulous and absurd arguments, that Albertine shall continue to live here.”
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