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"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."

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

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."

"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

"Marriage is the only Institution With One Access: Entrance Only, No Exit, No Outing Option So Look Well Before You Dive Into It."

"Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things."

"Marriage converts a player into a polygamist."
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"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."


"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."


"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it."


"It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept."


"The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one."
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