"Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes"
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The phrasing is doing careful work. “Very alike” is emphatic but non-dramatic, suggesting agreement without implying sameness of personality. “In our tastes” narrows the claim to the daily, livable stuff: what you watch, eat, buy, listen to, how you furnish a home, where you go on vacation. It’s a subtle reframing of intimacy as logistics, which is often where marriages actually succeed or fail. He’s not selling passion; he’s selling alignment.
Context matters, too. For mid-century and late-20th-century TV actors, public image was part of the job, and “stable family man” was a safe, durable brand. Naming Cynthia grounds the sentiment in a real person, not an abstract “my wife,” while the sentence itself keeps her protected from overexposure. The subtext: we’re not a spectacle; we’re a team. In an attention economy that rewards chaos, that kind of quiet sameness becomes its own statement.
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| Topic | Friendship |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
McCord, Kent. (2026, January 17). Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/cynthia-and-i-are-very-alike-in-our-tastes-70455/
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McCord, Kent. "Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/cynthia-and-i-are-very-alike-in-our-tastes-70455/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Cynthia and I are very alike in our tastes." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/cynthia-and-i-are-very-alike-in-our-tastes-70455/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.




