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J.D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy

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  • bookworm2018has quoted7 years ago
    the demons of the life we left behind continue to chase us.
  • Anastasia Mezhevichhas quoted7 years ago
    I spent the first eighteen years of my life pretending that everything in the world was a problem except me.
  • Мария Гусеваhas quoted7 years ago
    the measure of a man is how he treats the women in his family
  • Inna Shafikovahas quoted4 years ago
    In my immature brain, I didn’t understand the difference between intelligence and knowledge. So I assumed I was an idiot.
  • Даниил Ильяшевичhas quoted4 years ago
    2014, in the richest country on earth, he wanted a little extra to eat but felt uncomfortable asking. Lord help us.
  • Inna Shafikovahas quoted4 years ago
    We tend to overstate and to understate, to glorify the good and ignore the bad in ourselves
  • Даниил Ильяшевичhas quoted4 years ago
    Months away from graduating from Yale Law, I should have felt on top of the world. Instead, I found myself wondering the same thing I’d wondered for much of the past year: whether people like us can ever truly change.
  • Даниил Ильяшевичhas quoted4 years ago
    most of all that I hadn’t escaped a goddamned thing.
  • Quang Tu Dohas quoted4 years ago
    described toward the end of Hillbilly Elegy—of replacing resentment with sympathy and understanding.
  • Quang Tu Dohas quoted4 years ago
    espite a relatively vibrant economy, many of the regional economies in the industrial Midwest continue to struggle, wage growth lags behind productivity growth, and many metrics of broader social problems—opioid overdoses, rising mortality—are going up. The rancor of the 2016 campaign continues to infect our discourse.
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