"Many men are more faithful to their..." - Quote by John Updike
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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“If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.”
“I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.”
“My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.”
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“The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.”
“I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.”
“Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”
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“It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.”
“The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.”
“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”