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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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"There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies."


"Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you."


"It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama."


"Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times."


"There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged."


"Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it."
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