Lauren

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My Grandmother As...

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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

by Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)

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The Black Stallion (The Black Stallion, #1)

by Walter Farley

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The Alchemy of Freedom: The Philosophers' Stone and the Secrets of Existence

by A.H. Almaas

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Lauren’s Quotes

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins

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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Children's, Comics, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult

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