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I was just reading a brief bio of novelist Russel Banks and this caught my eye:

He managed to win a scholarship to college but he felt so out of place there that he quit after eight weeks and moved to Florida. He considered joining the communist revolution going on in Cuba but he got married instead.

What’s that — choosing to be an inlaw rather than an outlaw? He was in a combative mood so he figured he would fight with her instead of the Cuban government? I can picture him with his hands like a balance… go to war… go to the altar…. People are are often suspicious that I never married. I think next time it comes up, I’ll say I’m a revolutionary.

A bachelor is someone that never made the same mistake once.

Actually, I used to be married to my job. And then I found out it was cheating on me.

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