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"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
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"Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends."
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"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
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"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."
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"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
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"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes."
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"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."
Family
"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
Family
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
Marriage
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
People
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
Career
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
Location
"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
Life
"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
Patriotism
"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
Language
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