There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Norman Mailer
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  3. The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  4. The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. - Karl Lagerfeld

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More Quotes By Norman Mailer
  1. Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

  2. Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

  3. The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

  4. Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

  5. Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207

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