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Quote by John Updike
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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Celebrity
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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Society
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Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, its a piece of humbug. – Max Frisch

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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth. – Gary Vaynerchuk

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Marriage

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. – Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage

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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. – Michel de Montaigne, “Upon Some Verses of Virgil”

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I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but Im basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions. – Rufus Sewell

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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate nothing but the changeableness of the weather. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. – Joseph Addison

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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesnt. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. – Jack Prelutsky

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