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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."

"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."

"Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength."

"The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget."

"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care."

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."

"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."

"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."
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