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Deborah is Currently Reading

Deborah Franklin is currently reading

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

by Gavin Newsom

bookshelves: currently-reading, biographies-memoirs-tell-alls, el-dorado, 2028-politics

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Apr 09, 2026 02:04PM

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The Lyrics

by Paul McCartney

bookshelves: currently-reading, 1960s, art-non-fiction, biographies-memoirs-tell-alls, music-for-the-making

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Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

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“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a city famous for its idiosyncratic culture and yet, the very habits, fashions, and ideas that exalt that city in the eyes of the world may make no sense to him at all.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“...the Count had restricted himself to two succinct pieces of parental advice. The first was that if one did not master one's circumstances, one was bound to be mastered by them; the second was Montaigne's maxim that the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

tags: cheerfulness, circumstances, parenting-advice

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“Long had he believed that a gentleman should turn to a mirror with a sense of distrust. For rather than being tools of self-discovery, mirrors tended to be tools of self-deceit.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“Life is every bit as devious as Death. It too can wear a hooded coat. It too can slip into town, lurk in an alley, or wait in the back of a tavern.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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“imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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