All Quotes By Tag: Divorce
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“It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.”
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“Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.”
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“He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.”
“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.”
“Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.”
“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.”
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
“Losing a mate to death is devastating but it’s not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it’s an insult beyond comparison.”
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“He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem ‘Divorce’)”
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“In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.”
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“They’d apparently decided to end a dedicated, seven-year relationship over honey walnut shrimp.”
“I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing end, so be it. Losing meant quiet, and forgetting quickly, and giving up nothing of any real worth to me. I did not debate restaurant bills, politics, wrongly delivered mail, divorces. These things were officiously loud, and silence was always best.”
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“He didn’t take any of my shit. I needed that.”
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