"I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce."
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"I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people."
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"Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money."
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"Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins."
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"I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes."
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"I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce."
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"Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life."
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"When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework."
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"It's cheaper to keep her."
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"On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly, 'Listen, darling, if you don't stop trampling me I'm going to make you sit on my lap while I tell you my entire life story. Including a lot of details about drug rehab and my divorce.' He goes back to his seat."
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"I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through."
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"Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce."
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"A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party"
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"I am never going to get divorced, and that's that."
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"There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved."
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"Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd."
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"In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation."
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"Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes."
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"Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you."
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"Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death."
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