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Quote by Iris Murdoch
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly tak

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – 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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Love
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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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Marriage
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch

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Survival
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My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, Id like to go fairy tale all the way. – NeNe Leakes

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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. Im glad I was disabused. – Barry Hannah

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Theres not a lot of room anymore for what I call made-up drama. The drama comes from real places now – marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you dont grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then youve got some real drama. – Jeremy Sisto

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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. – Alexander Theroux

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