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I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#black #complete #easier #elect #exists

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#did #dire #drinks #get #how

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#delightfully #dive #expectations #find #go

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets. ↗

— David Gill

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I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them. ↗

— Sharon Gless

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. ↗

— Seth Godin

#each #face #flies #industrial #innovate

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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