“ My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. ”
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“ We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. ”
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“ A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ”
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“ There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. ”
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“ The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ”
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“ You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? ”
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“ The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe. ”
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“ Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff — it is a palliative rather than a remedy. ”
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“ You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? ”
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“ Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ”
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“ The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. ”
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“ Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?". ”
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“ The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds — they mature slowly. ”
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“ We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them. ”
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“ There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. ”
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“ When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. ”
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“ I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best — it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money — provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ”
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“ The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe. ”
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“ I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best — it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money — provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ”
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“ The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe. ”
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“ The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked up in the safe. ”
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“ You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? ”
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“ The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds — they mature slowly. ”
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“ Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, "What's in it for me?". ”
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“ When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. ”
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