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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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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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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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"All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n."
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"Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window."
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"My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength."
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"Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate "relationship involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage, in other words, has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. During their understandably temporary association, the "married couple will typically consume a large quantity of merchandise and a large portion of each other."
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"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."
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"They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises."
Exploration
"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
Friendship
"Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety."
Change
"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20."
Marriage
"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
Science
"Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write."
Learning
"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
Imagination
"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
Risk
"I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs."
Enemy
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Lie
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