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Laurie is Currently Reading

Laurie is currently reading

Atonement

by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)

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Laurie’s Quotes

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: disillusionment, growing-up, humor

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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