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"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
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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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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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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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"No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes."
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"Marriage is but a consolidation of resources."
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"God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
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"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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"I'd never been content in America."
America
"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
Marriage
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
Celebrity
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
Cinema
"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
Children
"My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India."
Family
"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."
Politics
"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
Attention
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
Order
"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
Life
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