Quote by John Updike
That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under h

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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Experience
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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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Truth
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike

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Marriage is a religious and state issue. – Jim DeMint

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Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, its another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity. – Carla Bruni

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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. – Sonia Johnson

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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. – P. J. ORourke

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Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. – Author Unknown

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