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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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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Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. – Michel de Montaigne

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. – Henry Ward Beecher

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It isnt tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying its separating himself from all the others. – Helen Rowland

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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good – which is the family. – Rachel Griffiths

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