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"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
"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."
"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."
"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."
"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."
"Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that."
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"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
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