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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints a

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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Marriage is natures way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. – Alan King

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It couldnt be a simpler answer. Marriage doesnt really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I dont gravitate to it. – Jon Hamm

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I took the fear of marriage from my parents relationship, because I didnt want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didnt carry it on into their own marriages. – John Mahoney

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After a while in marriage, it doesnt work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. – Monica Bellucci

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