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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
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"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate."

"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."

"12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent."

"In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westcliff. As two strong-willed people with very different sensibilities, Lillian and Westcliff often argued and negotiated... and yet this didn't seem to weaken their marriage. Quite the opposite, in fact- their union seemed all the better for it.She considered her friends' marriages... Annabelle and Mr. Hunt as a harmony of similar dispositions... Evie and Lord St. Vincent with their opposite natures, as necessary to each other's existence as day and night. It was impossible to say that any of these pairings was superior to the others.Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was a unique creation."

"Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted."

"Beauvoir left their home wanting to call his wife and tell her how much he loved her, and then tell her what he believed in, and his fears and hopes and disappointments. To talk about something real and meaningful. He dialed his cell phone and got her. But the words got caught somewhere south of his throat. Instead he told her the weather had cleared, and she told him about the movie she'd rented. Then they both hung up."

"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."
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"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

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

"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."

"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."

"Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever."

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

"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
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