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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."
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"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."


"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."


"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."


"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."


"We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through."


"Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children."


"It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors."
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