Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri
I dont know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in

I dont know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents marriage. And its interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison. – Jhumpa Lahiri

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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. – Jhumpa Lahiri

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Marriage
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Ive never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other peoples computers as a bystander. A few times in my life Ive opened email accounts, twice actually, but its something I dont want in my life right now. – Jhumpa Lahiri

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For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems – but I knew she wanted to be married. – Jhumpa Lahiri

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty. – Proverb

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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. – Jean Kerr, Mary, Mary, 1960

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And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. – John Boehner

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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

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