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"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
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"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."
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"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
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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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"The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the two different sets of emotions together properly."
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"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
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"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
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"A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly."
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"Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal."
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"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
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"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."
Philosophy
"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."
Life
"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."
Truth
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."
Life
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
Time
"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."
Comfort
"I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."
Being
"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
Being
"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
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"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!"
Man
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