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“I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD in comparative literature so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called FMR, so we have a common interest in design.”

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Author:David Chipperfield

“My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.”

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Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.”

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Author:Fred Saberhagen

“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.”

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Author:Hesiod

“You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.”

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Author:Irwin Shaw

“Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.”

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Book:Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

Source: Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

“Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling