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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
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| The Art of War is one of those rare ancient texts that has escaped its own historical moment and become something much broader. Reading Michael Nylan’s new translation reminded me how little the book is really about warfare in the narrow sense. At it ...more | |
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| Heart the Lover left me with mixed reactions, though ultimately I found myself more moved by it than frustrated. I wasn’t a huge fan of Writers & Lovers, so I came into this one somewhat cautiously. What immediately drew me in, however, was the setti ...more | |
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse isn’t the sort of book I read very often. I’m not generally drawn to graphic novels or illustrated fables, but Charlie Mackesy’s book won me over through its simplicity and sincerity. Built around brief convers ...more |
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| The War of Art struck a nerve with me as someone trying to return to writing after more than two decades away. Steven Pressfield’s central concept of “Resistance”—that internal combination of fear, procrastination, distraction, and self-doubt that ke ...more | |
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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