Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. – Honore de Balzac
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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
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, youll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. – Neil Simon
A good businessman never makes a contract unless hes sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. – Dalton Trumbo
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. – Alexander Herzen
So if youre a robot and youre living on this planet, you can do things that you cant do in real life – things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive. – William Joyce