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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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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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

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In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. – Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal, 1974

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There is nothing wrong with your marriage if youre dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. Thats a normal marriage. – Phil McGraw

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For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do. – Al Goldstein

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Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras? – Brigitte Bardot

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Im always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. Its an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians. – Matt Cameron

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The love of one – Pau (Pablo) Casals

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The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. – Hume Cronyn

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