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Liz Smith

"The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great."

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"The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great."

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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

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"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

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"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

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"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."

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