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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."
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"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."

"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

"To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening."

"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."

"It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth."

"I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal."

"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
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