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"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
"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."
"The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget."
"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
"American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them."
"Marriage is the only Institution With One Access: Entrance Only, No Exit, No Outing Option So Look Well Before You Dive Into It."
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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."
"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."
"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day."
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"
"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it."
"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."
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