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The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral
solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we
promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much. - Anthony Burgess
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. - Anthony Burgess
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