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Laura is currently reading

The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

by Sasha Bonét (Goodreads Author)

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""If you don't understand the history of African American women, you don't understand the history of america." Toni Morrison

I was fortunate to hear Sasha Bonét speak at the New Orleans book festival this year. A remarkable experience that left me feeling both empowered and humbled. Looking forward to this reading experience." — May 16, 2026 01:39PM

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Laura’s Quotes

“The process of remembering contributes to that which endures.”
― Adrian Del Caro, Hölderlin: The Poetics of Being

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“Commonly, people think of philosophy as a quest, however ill advised, for truth. John Dewey called it the quest for certainty. But it is more illuminating to say that, at its best, philosophy is the quest for honesty.”
― Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic

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“Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly seek to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us.””
― Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism, Religion, and Death: Thirteen Essays

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“Only one who has mastered a tradition has a right to attempt to add to it or rebel against it.”
― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

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“Contemporary trends of thought have imagined art to be a fountain, whereas it is a sponge. They have decided that art ought to gush forth, whereas it should absorb and become saturated. They think it can be broken down into means of depiction, whereas it is composed of organs of perception. Its proper task is to be always among the spectators and to look more purely, receptively and faithfully than all others.”
― Boris Pasternak

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