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• I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

  Freya Stark

  Hate, Book, Wife

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• We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Race, Desire, Constitution

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.56, e-artnow

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• as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

  Margaret Deland

  Manners, Incompatibility, Truthfulness

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.182, Wildside Press LLC

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• The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Civilization, Special

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• Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Sex, Love Is, Thieves

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• Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.

  Merle Shain

  Marriage, Loneliness, Giving

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

  Ava Gardner

  Love Is, Hollywood, Publicity

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• We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  War, Divorce, Fighting

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• It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

  John Irving

  Children, Couple, Divorce

  "A Widow for One Year". Book by John Irving, May 5, 1998.

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• Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

  Slash

  Views, Voice, Perspective

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Ideas, Faces, Firsts

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.37, Penguin

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• If you are in here tonight and you have never contemplated suicide…you've never truly been in love. If you're in here tonight and you have never contemplated murder…you've never been divorced.

  Christopher

  Suicide, Tonight, Murder

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• I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.

  Agatha Christie

  Fashion, Mistake, Divorce

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.

  J. Cole

  Parent, Together, Remember

  "J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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• Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".

  Sheri L. Dew

  Divorce, Etc, Categories

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• I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Thinking, Space

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• My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  Mother, Father, Men

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• The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

  Jo Coudert

  Divorce, Eye, Men

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.212, iUniverse

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• The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

  Will Durant

  Husband, Divorce, Men

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

  Ellen Goodman

  Speech, Language, Ritual

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• As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.

  Plutarch

  Wife, Done, Bed

  Plutarch (1872). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.606

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• My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

  Laura Linney

  Growing Up, Father, Profound

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• Newt Gingrich wants to build a colony on the Moon. OK, you say, but why? Well, he wants to be the first American to get divorced on the Moon.

  David Letterman

  Moon, Want, Firsts

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• I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dad, Years, Married

  Evening Standard, p. 16, May 2, 2013.

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• Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

  Lucretius

  Passion, Harm, Intercourse

  " A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell, (Book I, Part III, Chapter XXVII), 1945.

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