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Laura is Currently Reading

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Spoiled Milk

by Avery Curran (Goodreads Author)

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May 23, 2026 05:28AM

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Blackfishing the IUD

by Caren Beilin

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The Scapegoat

by René Girard

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Laura’s Quotes

“People truly engaged in life have messy houses.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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“Elegance is refusal.”
― Coco Chanel

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“True enough,” said Mrs. Copperfield, bringing her fist down on the table and looking very mean. “I have gone to pieces, which is a thing I’ve wanted to do for years. I know I am as guilty as I can be, but I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
― Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies

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