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"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
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"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."
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"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."
"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
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