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"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
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"A young man married is a man that's marred."
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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 tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage."
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"Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal."
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"Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want."
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"Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy."
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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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"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
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"Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her."
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"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
Family
"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
Imagination
"As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari."
Dream
"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
People
"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
"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 didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
Career
"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
Fiction
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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