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"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."
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"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
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"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
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"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
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"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."
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"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy."
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"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."
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
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"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
Nationality
"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."
Thought
"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."
Marriage
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
Nationality
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
Consciousness
"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
Perseverance
"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."
Attitude
"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."
Family
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
Life
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