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Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural s

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. – Quentin Crisp, “The Art of Celibacy”

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. – W. H. Auden

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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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The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell. – Jennifer Garner

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People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. – James L. Framo, “Explorations in Marital & Family Therapy”

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