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James Taylor

"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."

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"Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"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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