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1 " Meeting a girl, falling in love, marrying her, moving to Connecticut, buying a fucking house, starting a life with her and thinking you really knew anything about her--the last part was a complete fiction, which made all the rest a joke. "
― Richard Ford , A Multitude of Sins
2 " Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know. "
3 " sharing the future with someone would certainly mean that repetitions had to be managed more skillfully. "
4 " Love, Henry remembered thinking then, was a lengthy series of insignificant questions whose answers you couldn’t live without. "
5 " And now, while he didn't particularly think any of these stories was a bit truer, he did realize that he didn't really know his wife at all; and that in fact the entire conception of knowing another person--of trust, of closeness, of marriage itself--while not exactly a lie since it existed someplace if only as an idea (in his parents' life, at least marginally) was still completely out-of-date, defunct, was something typifying another era, now unfortunately gone. Meeting a girl, falling in love, marrying her, moving to Connecticut, buying a fucking house, starting a life with her and thinking you really knew anything about her--the last part was a complete fiction, which made all the rest a joke. "