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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."

"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."

"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."

"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."

"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."

"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."
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