I've also always been fascinated by weddings... those surreal performances where the audience plays an integral part -- the joy, the sadness, the passion... all unfolding firstly in a house where God is served and ultimately in a house where beer is served... the knife inserted ritually into the virginal white cake to reveal the dark fruity interior... that ugly pagan concept of the father handing over his daughter to her new master... the mothers crying because they're losing a daughter, the page boys crying because they have to wear such stupid clothes... those embarrassing speeches and drunken uncles on the dance floor...
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O heavens! how short a time does it take to put an eternal end to a woman's liberty!
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Look, twenty-dollar weddings. What a way to get married.... Keechie, would you marry me?
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
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I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying 'You're next.' They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals.
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The more established you are in society, the more pageantry there tends to be at the weddings.
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too much morality, too little sense.
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I talk marriage; they talk weddings!
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