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Marilou Rickert

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The Museum of Failures

by Thrity Umrigar

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Apr 16, 2026 09:54PM

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More Than Two: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity

by Eve Rickert (Goodreads Author)

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Marilou Rickert said: " First, allow me to be clear. This is NOT the More than Two I read and reviewed 10 or 11 years ago, but a completely new book. Even though it's called a "second edition," it is completely rewritten by different authors and with new and different conte ...more "

Sep 13, 2025 07:36PM · see review

Marilou’s Quotes

“. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

tags: history, judgment, memory

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“The end of the world is always a local event.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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“For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
― James Baldwin

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