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"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
"12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent."
"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."
"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."
"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers."
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
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"The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all."
"St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry."
"There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that."
"Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue."
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