Andrew Cooper

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Andrew is Currently Reading

Andrew Cooper is currently reading

Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez

bookshelves: classics, new-classics, spanish-language, re-read, nobel-laureate, currently-reading, espanol

Reading for the 5th time

read in October 2007

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Andrew’s Quotes

“Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

tags: communism

36 likes

“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

tags: authorial-intent, classics, drama, interpretation, shakespeare

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“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: career, corporate, vocation

368 likes

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

tags: philosophy

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