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Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

by James Holland

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Sep 16, 2026 10:09PM

“she also felt like telling him that the economic system she has devoted her life to working in is the world’s biggest problem right now, because we made the system too strong. We forgot how greedy we are, but above all we forgot how weak we are. And now it’s crushing us.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“Three very widespread and deeply embedded dogmas that I frequently run across when I talk with Bible believers are inspiration, inerrancy, and univocality. Not a single one of these is supported by any data.”
― Daniel McClellan, The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues

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“But if there’s one thing modern life and the Internet have taught us, it’s that you should never expect to win a discussion simply because you’re right.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“Monster? And then she looked down and realized that her assailant had been talking about the skeleton of the dog. Oh. Right. I suppose … yes. She scowled. He was a good dog. He had excellent bones and even if she had used too much wire and gotten it a bit muddled around the toes and one of the bones of the tail, she’d think that a decent person would stop and admire the craftsmanship before they screamed and ran away.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

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“Everyone. The church, the parish, politicians, people who believed in God, people who didn’t believe in God… she made it her job to defend the weakest: the homeless, migrants, even criminals. Because somewhere in the Bible Jesus says something like: ‘I was hungry and you gave me food, I was homeless and you looked after me, I was sick and you cared for me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ And then He says something like, what we do for the weakest among us, we also do for Him. And she took everything so damn literally, my wife. That’s why she kept causing trouble.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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