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

"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."

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

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"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."
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"To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death."


"I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner."


"If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account."


"Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us."


"There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off."


"Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged."
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