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The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

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One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

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The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

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In an ideal world, marriage vows would be entirely rewritten. At the alter, a couple would speak thus: "We accept not to panic when, some years from n...more

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I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

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Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

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To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. This isn’t necessarily our fault as individuals. Society a...more

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We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge ...more