"Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery."
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"If you fear loneliness, then don't get married."
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"She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me."
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"... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild."
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"In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate."
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"I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics."
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"Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens."
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"The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are."
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"Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others."
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"This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought."
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"I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed."
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"Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building."
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"It is ill to marry in the month of May."
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"To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family."
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"Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married."
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"I am not faithful but I am attached."
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"Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes."
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"Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished."
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"Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired."
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"Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?"
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