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12 Rules for Life – Part 3 of 3
I’ve decided to share these quotes in the order they appear in the book, plus occasional commentary. All quotes are from the 2018 hardcover edition. Key: plaintext – Worthy quotes bold – Favorite quotes italics – Quotes I disliked 12 Rules for Life: Best and Worst Quotes The dominance hierarchy is not capitalism. It’s not Continue reading
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12 Rules for Life – Part 2 of 3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Evstafiev[CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons “No one could stand up for communism after The Gulag Archipelago – not even the communists themselves.” (12 Rules for Life, p. 310) I would like to think that’s true. Unfortunately, admiration for Joseph Stalin is, by all appearances, far from dead. The mass murderer has Continue reading
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The Diary of a Young Girl
…I seem to have everything, except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem. As I read The Diary of Continue reading
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Falling in Love with Fiction
Occasionally you stumble across some historical story so weird it could only have happened in in real life. Exhibit A: the mysterious lover of Nikolay Gumilyov. Nikolay Gumilyov Who was Nikolay Gumilyov? Born in 1886, he grew up well educated and began writing poetry at a young age, becoming first published, in fact, at around Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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