Lauren Slater

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March 21, 1963 in The United States

gender

female

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http://www.laurenslater.com

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Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Books by Lauren Slater

Average rating: 3.76 · 2,483 ratings · 298 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir 3.86 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century 3.91 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Welcome to My Country by Lauren Slater, Laverne Slater (Preface) 3.80 avg rating — 411 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Prozac Diary 3.44 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Essays 2006 by Lauren Slater (Editor), Robert Atwan (Series Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Love Works Like This: Moving from One Kind of Life to Another 3.78 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Blue Beyond Blue: Extraordinary Tales for Ordinary Dilemmas by Lauren Slater, Stephanie Knowles (Illustrator) 3.37 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Spasm: a Memoir with Lies 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Kokoro Wa Jikkendekiruka: Nijisseiki Shinrigaku Jikken Monogatari by Lauren Slater, 岩坂彰 (翻訳) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:

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“I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.”
― Lauren Slater

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“Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?”
― Lauren Slater, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

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“I record my life, sifting and trying to separate what is real from what I’ve dreamed. I have decided not to tell you what is fact versus what is unfact primarily because (a) I am giving you a portrait of the essence of me, and (b) because, living where I do, living in the chasm that cuts through thought, it is lonely… come with me, reader. I am toying with you, yes, but for a real reason. I am asking you to enter the confusion with me, to give up the ground with me, because sometimes that frightening floaty place is really the truest of all. Kierkegaard says, ‘The greatest lie of all is the feeling of firmness beneath our feet. We are most honest when we are lost.’ Enter that lostness with me. Live in the place I am, where the view is murky, where the connecting bridges and orienting maps have been surgically stripped away.”
― Lauren Slater, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir

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