Sentences with phrase «unhappy families alike»
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Her book is a strong counterargument to Tolstoy's dictum that all happy families are alike, while each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — as if unhappy families were more interesting than happy ones.
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At the end of the story, Inskee quoted Tolstoy with his own clever twist: «Happy families are all alike; unhappy families have kids under five or teenagers.»
Our headline arrives with apologies to Leo Tolstoy, who famously began his novel Anna Karenina with the comment that «Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»
It's the bit about happy families being all alike in their yaddayadda - blabla and how unhappy families are all unhappy in their unique blablabla.
Winner (TIE): Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier Leo Tolstoy once rather famously wrote that «happy families are all alike,» but that «every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»
Leo Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina with the line, «All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»
Hugh, reminds me of the «Karenina principle» lifted from Tolstoy's «Anna Karenina»: «Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way».
Though Anna Karenina might be one of my favorite novels about marriage, I disagree with Tolstoy that «all happy families are alike, while each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina opens with the famous line «All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»
«Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»