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A young couple is led to imagine that marriage is a box full of goodies, . . . that they can sit down and eat out of this box all their lives, and it will never be empty. But it is empty. There will never be anything in it unless the partners put it there. And if they do not want it to be empty, they must put in a lot more than they are in the habit of taking out. But the young romantic who imagined it ought to be endlessly full of goodies institutes a lawsuit against God and the marriage partner as soon as he discovers the score of the game. He feels swindled. But he imagines the next box he buys will be full even though the first one was empty.

—Willard and Marguerite Beecher

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Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.

—Louis de Bernières in Captain Corelli's Mandolin

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I have a self-esteem problem. During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

—Richard Lewis

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You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither.

—Steve Martin

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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

—Iris Murdoch

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Bed is the poor man's opera.

—Italian proverb

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President and Mrs. Coolidge, visiting a government farm, were taken around on separate tours. At the chicken pens Mrs. Coolidge paused to inquire of the overseer whether the rooster copulated more than once a day. "Dozens of times," said the man. "Tell that to the president," requested Mrs. Coolidge. The president came past the pens and was told about the rooster. "Same hen every time?" he asked. "Oh, no, a different one each time." Coolidge nodded. "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge," he said.

—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

—Abraham Lincoln

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Whenever I date a guy, I think, Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

—Rita Rudner

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Men are stupid and women are crazy. And the reason women are so crazy is because men are so stupid.

—George Carlin

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Sometimes the wrong path can lead us to the right road.

—Jay McLean in Where the Road Takes Me

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More and more lately, we kept hitting each other with these little jabs. Like we were siblings or bickering friends, not a couple supposedly in love.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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People who talk less frequently notice more.

—Judith McNaught in Someone To Watch Over Me

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I still felt that rush whenever he looked so happy to see me.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

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Sometimes letting go and forgiving others and yourself is the only way to move forward in life.

—J.S. Cooper in The Other Side of Love

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