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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was alm

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. – Jane Smiley

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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – Jane Smiley

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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for ones accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. – Jane Smiley

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Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. – Kin Hubbard

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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued. – Helen Rowland, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, 1909

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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. – Michel de Montaigne

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Shes been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. – Henny Youngman

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