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Book cover for Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
White evangelicals have pieced together this patchwork of issues, and a nostalgic commitment to rugged, aggressive, militant white masculinity serves as the thread binding them together into a coherent whole. A father’s rule in the home is ...more
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Andy Miller
“Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I think he means you.”
Andy Miller, The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life

Søren Kierkegaard
“No one comes back from the dead, no one has entered the world without crying; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, nor when he wishes to leave.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Tove Ditlevsen
“Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it’s sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart. It seems that everyone has their own and each is totally different. My brother’s childhood is very noisy, for example, while mine is quiet and furtive and watchful. No one likes it and no one has any use for it.”
Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

Svetlana Alexievich
“The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”
Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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Guillermo Erades
“Russia is lost" she continued. "First we had God. Then we had Lenin. Now we have nothing.”
Guillermo Erades, Back to Moscow

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Want to explore different genres? Each month we pick a different Literary book, to read and discuss. Books are picked by members via a poll.
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166408 The Literati — 33 members — last activity Jan 19, 2019 02:09PM
“L'intellectuel est quelqu'un qui se mêle de ce qui ne le regarde pas.” – Jean-Paul Sartre We seek the answers to life and the world around us. We s ...more
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With the release of the 100 Best WIT list we thought it might be fun to dedicate a Goodreads group to the list...maybe even read the list in its entir ...more
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This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
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