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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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I was an only child. Ive known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. – Jane Smiley

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley

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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I dont know any smokers now, not even my mom. – Jane Smiley

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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. – Menander

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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Im 0 for 3 with marriage – the scoreboard doesnt lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. – Charlie Sheen

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So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything – my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me. – Kathy Mattea

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Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. – Democritus

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Im very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. – Norman MacCaig

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In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that its on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. – Roman Polanski

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