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"I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage."

"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."

"Marriage is like a well - built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own."

"I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do."

"Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient."

"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."

"There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side."

"Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling."
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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

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

"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."

"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."

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

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