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I don't want to be married anymore. In daylight hours, I refused that thought, but at night it would consume me. What a catastrophe. How could I be su...more

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My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed.I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress—wha...more

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The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out al...more

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If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

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I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own t...more

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Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Debo...more

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I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you we...more

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It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.

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I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis...more

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I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some peo...more

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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been t...more

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My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New York City on a rare world tour. Although she couldn't...more

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I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

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The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would ...more

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I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.