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"If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce."
"When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer."
"By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind."
"Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court."
"It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new."
"Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent."
"One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce."
"I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this."
"You have to be with the right person. Its so much more important to meet the right person, whether youre married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce."
"At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'"
"If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second."
"She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her."
"It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace."