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.

Famous Quotes / Anthony Burgess

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Anthony Burgess: "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."

Quotations about

Adultery	America	Americans	Aura
Clings	Comes	Contract	Course
Death	Divorce	Encompasses	England
Enough	Eternity	Europe	European
Even	Hate	Honor	Indifference
Into	Itch	Looks	Love
Marital	Marriage	Mean	Moral
Multiple	Outside	Penalty	Polygamy
Problem	Promise	Really	Seeming
Serial	Seriousness	Solution	Still
Take	Taking	Tend	Theocratic

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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