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“You could consider marrying an excellent woman?' I asked in amazement. 'But they are not for marrying.' 'You're surely not suggesting that they are for the other things?' he said, smiling. That had certainly not occurred to me and I was annoyed to find myself embarrassed. 'They are for being unmarried,' I said, 'and by that I mean a positive rather than a negative state.” — Barbara Pym
You could consider marrying an excellent woman?' I asked in amazement. 'But they are not for marrying.'
'You're surely not suggesting that they are for the other things?' he said, smiling.
That had certainly not occurred to me and I was annoyed to find myself embarrassed.
'They are for being unmarried,' I said, 'and by that I mean a positive rather than a negative state.