"Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor"

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Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

Siddharth Katragadda

#Couple Quotes #Children Quotes #Law Quotes

“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
“I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12”
“I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works”
“How can you possibly believe he really loves you?â€ Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittierâ€™s hand.â€œYou have no choice,â€ Mr. Whittier tells her. â€œIf you need to be loved.”
“Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.”
“We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department - and even many literary writers look and behave like young urban professionals and canny careerists.”
“When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.”
“I've been very lucky and fortunate to meet people that are very inspirational in their spirits, too, and not just as filmmakers - in their personal life. I mean, Steven Spielberg is very inspirational just to sit down and talk for an hour, like Ingmar Bergman was. They know so much about life and, you know, movie-making, so it's just wonderful to be around those people.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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