A small round table with four chairs and a single gold plate set at one place on a cranberry background.

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Orson Welles

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

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A joke dressed as medical restraint. The doctor's rule against intimate dinners for four sounds sensible until the exception: fine if three other people are there. So the dinner for four is really one person eating alone, and the intimacy is just cover.

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