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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle not a bed of roses.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Marriage

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre everything is so advertised so trailed that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
  • 2. A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
  • 3. Ours is essentially a tragic age so we refuse to take it tragically.

2 Amazing

  • 1. If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together and the rock industry we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen – we're such an amazing race.
  • 2. When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones but I haven't done a lot of them.
  • 3. So for my studio purposes I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

3 Anger

  • 1. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
  • 2. My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.
  • 3. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
  • 2. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.
  • 3. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I could have been an architect but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
  • 2. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
  • 3. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
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