Marina Lewycka Quotes

• In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

  Marina Lewycka

  Country, Lying, Ignorance

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• A man needs enough...no less, no more.

  Marina Lewycka

  Men, Needs, Enough

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• As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

  Marina Lewycka

  Falling In Love, Two, People

  Marina Lewycka (2006). “A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian”, p.68, Penguin

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• Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.

  Marina Lewycka

  Mother, Memories, Father

  "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.

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