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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

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I married a damned cereal killer ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works hard to keep things rolling smoothly, someone else sails along for the ride. Someone who would do anything to keep it the way it was in the beginning. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. ↗

— Nora Ephron

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