You could consider marrying an excellent woman?' I asked in amazement. 'But they are not for marrying.''You're surely not suggesting that they are for the other things?' he said, smiling.That had certainly not occurred to me and I was annoyed to find myself embarrassed.'They are for being unmarried,' I said, 'and by that I mean a positive rather than a negative state.
-Barbara Pym
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