Quote by Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in lov

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. – Iris Murdoch

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch

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I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. – Ava Gardner

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I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. Its not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but Ill do it because its a moment that will stick with me forever. – Tim Allen

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. – Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath, 1713

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It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as “the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.” – Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns

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