Susan Orlean Quotes - Page 5

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• The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

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  Dog, Past, Pet

  Susan Orlean (2012). “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog”, p.235, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.

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  Girl, Dream, Tired

  "Perchance to Dream" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2010.

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• We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

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  Country, Coffee, People

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

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  Feelings, Earth, Corny

  "Seasonal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

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  Reflection, Advice, Culture

  "Susan Orlean: Stress in the Cards". www.newyorker.com. May 7, 2009.

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• I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.

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  Winter, Needs, Hens

  "Seasonal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

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  Children, Winter, Ohio

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

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  Birthday, Cutting, Thinking

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

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  Real, School, Names

  "@leapofFaith" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

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  Hunting, Orchids, Occupation

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• I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

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  Writing, Pieces, Magazines

  "Why a Blog?" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2010.

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• I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

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  New York, Writing, Class

  "An Education" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.

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  Thinking, Phones, Different

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.

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  Kids, College, People

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

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  Sunday, People, Hobbies

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

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  Fun, Moving, Hands

  "Connected" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 17, 2010.

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• To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

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  San Francisco, Office, Navy

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

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  Beautiful, Animal, People

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

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  Track, Mind, Giants

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?

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  Believe, Taken, Thinking

  "Soulful" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 4, 2011.

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• The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

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  Home, Perfect, Quests

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• The iPhone calendar isn't bad, but it isn't great, either. It only offers a day view and a month view - it doesn't have a week view, which drives me crazy.

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  Crazy, Iphone, Views

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

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  Dedication, Tunnels, Digging

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

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  Friendly, Beginnings And Ends, Use

  "Dear Reader" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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• They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.

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  Book, People, Likes

  "Vapor" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 6, 2010.

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