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Benjamin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Benjamin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Ben Wetmore’s Followers (15)
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Ben Wetmore
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While not particularly a fan of hers, I thought this book about writing fiction was interesting. The book is a collection of essays, primarily her presentation remarks in advance of readings that she was doing at the time. Her insights are interestin ...more |
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“If it has all happened that way, it is because Franklin D. Roosevelt is that way.”
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This was a good book by a good author. There aren't many 'reveals' in the book. It's a bit casual and breezy. It does give a nice contrarian insight into FDR as essentially a non-ideological playboy who will simply do anything for money, along with hi ...more |
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“We have no right to expect of the classical Marxist writers, separated as they were from our day by a period of forty-five or fifty-five years, that they should have foreseen each and every zigzag of history in the distant future in every separate country. It would be ridiculous to expect that the classical Marxist writers should have elaborated for our benefit readymade solutions for each and every theoretical problem that might arise in any particular country fifty or one hundred years afterwards, so that we, the descendants of the classical Marxist writers, might calmly doze at the fireside and munch ready-made solutions.”
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“Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.”
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“The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
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“Christianity is preached by the ignorant and believed by the learned. And in this way is like no other thing.”
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
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“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
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