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Where War and Peace was mentioned: 27 timestamped quotes from 27 episodes across 5 podcasts.
“- Oh, yeah. But I've never read War and Peace, and I don't think I ever will. I think... I would've done it by now if I was going to.”
Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“she just came back with war and peace under her arm.”
“>> Well, I mean Pierre Bazookov in War and Peace, you know, opens with him in that”
Philosopher Teaches His Writing Process — Henry Shukman · How I Write
“uh the English version of war and peace. >> Well, now you got me thinking about”
I Interviewed 40 Writers in 2025 (Here's What I Learned) · How I Write
“War and Peace is one of the best novels written in Russian, I would argue. I think both of those are...”
Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“written hey Jude or you know war and peace”
How to Write Something Truly Beautiful (Alain de Botton Interview) · How I Write
“Magic Mountain and War in Peace, and I'm going to do the work it takes to really”
Pulitzer Prize Winner Teaches Writing (Paul Harding Interview) · How I Write
“transcripts like longer than War and Peace, right? What am I going to do with”
This Research System Will Change How You Write — Johann Hari · How I Write
“version of War and Peace you know Frodo you know is Pierre well now you”
Writing Advice Every Writer Should Hear (Dana Gioia Interview) · How I Write
“War in Peace that she gave you. Every year she'd give you a gift and they're”
How to Improve Your Storytelling Skills (Nick Bilton Interview) · How I Write
“Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Bulgakov, Pasternak. They've helped me understand”
Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6 | Lex Fridman Podcast #437 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“like the difference between Dostoevsky and Tolstoy or Hemingway, Bukowski, James Joyce, like I mentioned,”
Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“and you read Tolstoy in the original. Sure, you did.”
Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“"War and Peace" by Tolstoy, and "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius.”
Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“then you haven't read them, like "War and Peace", you know, like with the patronymic names.”
Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox - Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #370 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“There's a line from war and peace where one of the Russian aristocrats is mad that his son is joining the war and he goes, “It's that man Napoleon.”
Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism · Dwarkesh Podcast
“I'd read "War and Peace" and, you know, I'd loved the book actually.”
Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump | Lex Fridman Podcast #335 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“what's the role of War and Peace maybe even the Big Love and Hate in that part”
Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #322 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“when you read like war and peace you know that all the elites and russia are”
Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order · Dwarkesh Podcast
“everybody reads tolstoy dostoevsky it's exceptionally well read no matter”
Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body - From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart | Lex Fridman Podcast #297 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“i always wanted to name an album war and peace nice like that would be like that”
Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #281 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“I think a lot of people got enticed into reading like War and Peace and things”
Margaret Atwood — A Living Legend on Creative Process, The Handmaid’s Tale, and More · The Tim Ferriss Show
“death no what's the one war in peace war in peace yeah yeah yeah so Ernest”
Mark Normand: Comedy! | Lex Fridman Podcast #255 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“at the end of war and peace there's this great essay on historical determinism”
Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #239 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“also point out that tolstoy wrote warned peace and he wrote anna karenina so this”
Michael Malice: Totalitarianism and Anarchy | Lex Fridman Podcast #200 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“i packed war and peace thinking to myself this is one of those books that i've never read”
Suleika Jaouad - Invaluable Road Trips, the To-Feel List, and Artistic Homes | The Tim Ferriss Show · The Tim Ferriss Show
“i'm very moved by tolstoy's war and peace i assign that every year to my”
Jeremi Suri: History of American Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #180 · Lex Fridman Podcast