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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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"If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married."

"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."

"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."

"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."
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