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"Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine."
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"Polygamy is about sex, whereas monogamy is about love."

"You love her for a life time and still you are a stranger."

"Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child."

"Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."

"Good lovers are not good fuckers, because they cannot bear hurting their beloved."

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."

"In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are."

"Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we're in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind."

"An unfaithful wife is like a cloth in an open marketplace."

"When something serious happens in your life, something bad comes out of it but also something good. You get to see who is real. Who your true friends are, and who truly loves you."
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"What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us."

"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."

"I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive."

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech."

"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own."

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."

"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie."

"The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again."
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