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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."

"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."

"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"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."

"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."

"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 had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."

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