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"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
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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."
"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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"I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father."
"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."
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"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective."
"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."
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