"I have a very intense marriage."

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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

James Dobson, American Psychologist

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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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John Updike, American Novelist

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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

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"My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career."

Family

"I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life."

Life

"I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored."

Attention

"I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner."

People

"As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years."

Family

"I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books."

Love

"I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity."

Man

"I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little."

Truth

"As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me."

History

"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer."

Books