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John C. Hawkes

"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."

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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."

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

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"The real reason a husband and wife always fight is because they always focus on the ugliness in each other and have forgotten to focus on the beauties that attracted them at first."

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

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

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"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."

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"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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"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
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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."
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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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"I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting."
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