Children Quote by Jared Diamond

“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—”

— Christina Stead

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It’s like Tolstoy’s quote: “All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” All”

— Chip Heath

“On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages that moved him: "He was right in saying that the only…

— Jon Krakauer

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

— Susan Cheever

“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from…

— Isaiah Berlin

“Tolstoy had 13 kids and still wrote War & Peace.”

— Steven Pressfield

“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important…

— Lev Shestov

“Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.”

— David Markson