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"I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"Marriage is the only Institution With One Access: Entrance Only, No Exit, No Outing Option So Look Well Before You Dive Into It."

"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."

"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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"I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play."

"The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life."

"I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat."

"If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier."

"I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere."

"For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years."

"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."
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