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"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
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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."

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

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

"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."

"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."

"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."

"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."

"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."

"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."

"Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor."

"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
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