"One can with dignity be wife and widow but once."
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"When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself."
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"Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson"
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"I jog through the halls and then go upstairs to Jane’s locker and carefully slip the note I wrote last night through the vent: To: The Locker Houdini From: Will Grayson Re: An Expert in the Field of Good Boyfriends? Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson"
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"My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life."
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"The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree."
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"I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture."
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"You can tell actually when he starts to talk about his family, or his Daughters, or his Wife, and his whole face - really he's so really kind of a dear."
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"Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be."
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"The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days."
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"We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date."
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"When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act."
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"We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live."
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"I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife."
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"He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband."
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"Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants."
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"When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made."
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"Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family."
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"He was screaming like my wife."
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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."
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