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"American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
"Marriage is the only Institution With One Access: Entrance Only, No Exit, No Outing Option So Look Well Before You Dive Into It."
"Marriage converts a player into a polygamist."
"In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark."
"Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate."
"All marriages have their bad sides, because people have weaknesses. If you live with another human being you learn to handle these weaknesses in a variety of ways. For instance, you might take the view that weaknesses are a bit like heavy pieces of furniture, and based on this you must learn to clean around them. To maintain the illusion."
"Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds."
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"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."
"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."
"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind."
"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood."
"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."
"The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners."
"Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs."
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