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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."
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"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."
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"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."
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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
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"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
Sex
"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
Life
"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
Death
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
People
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
People
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
Hair
"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
Life
"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
Compromise
"I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes."
Men
"I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal."
Time
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