Marina Lewycka famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcÃ©e. 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 man needs enough...no less, no more.
-- Marina Lewycka

#Men #Needs #Enough

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

Marina Lewycka famous quotes

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