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"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
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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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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
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"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."
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"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."
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"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."
People
"I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough."
Kids
"When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation."
Relationship
"When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by."
Thought
"Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group."
Courage
"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either."
Time
"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
Travel
"We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit."
Want
"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight."
Drugs
"We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?"
Wonder
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