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Wallis Warfield Simpson
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“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.”
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“[Attributed primarily to her, but also to Truman Capote and Babe Paley:] One can never be too thin or too rich.”
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“There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ...”
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“... I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.”
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“A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.”
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“The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.”
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“There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage — only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.”
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“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.”
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“There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.”
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“[On the Duke of Windsor:] I married him for better or worse, but not for lunch.”
Wallis Warfield Simpson, U.S. socialite
(1896 - 1986)
Full name: Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.