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“People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.”
“If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to ...”
“Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.”
“I was stunned. I pulled the phone away and looked quizzically at the hole-punched speaker. Aside from the blood obligation to be my sister's maid of honor, it had never occured to me that I would g...”
“So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?”
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me”
“The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boastin...”
“My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good...”
“Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.”
“Married people grow like each other.”
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”
“The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.”
“There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.”
“Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.”
“a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves”
“...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard ...”
“In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that on...”
“As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife.”
“Marriage is like a fingerprint. Everyone's is different. ”
“She wanted to explain everything to himhow certain notes of the Moonlight Sonata shredded her heart like wind inside a paper bag; how her soul felt as endless and deep as the sea churning on their ...”
