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I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
- Susan Orlean
#Advice
#Date
#I Am
#Parcel
#Realize
I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.
- Susan Orlean
#Find
#Rather
#Than
#While
#Work
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
- Susan Orlean
#Along
#Feeling
#Genius
#Opposite
#Story
I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.
- Susan Orlean
#Myself
#Thinking
#Treat
#Tyranny
#Work
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
- Susan Orlean
#Advice
#Culture
#Reflection
#Wisdom
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.
- Susan Orlean
#Evening
#I Am
#Morning
#Sleep
#Tired
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.
- Susan Orlean
#Cell Phone
#Google
#Home
#Phone
#Voice
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.
- Susan Orlean
#Earth
#Harmony
#Nature
#Seasons
#True
I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.
- Susan Orlean
#Ambition
#Bright
#End
#Game
#Video Games
Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.
- Susan Orlean
#Cell Phone
#Day
#Long
#Me
#Surprise
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
- Susan Orlean
#Best
#Children
#Day
#Having Children
You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.
- Susan Orlean
#Crazy
#Day
#Internet
#Smart
#Thinking
A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
- Susan Orlean
#Day
#Like
#Sky
#Snow
#Wonder
Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.
- Susan Orlean
#Animals
#Chickens
#I Have Learned
#Water
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.
- Susan Orlean
#Day
#Election
#Matter
#People
#Vote
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.
- Susan Orlean
#Big
#Building
#Earth
#Great
#Surprise
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
- Susan Orlean
#Children
#Media
#Parents
#Social Media
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.
- Susan Orlean
#Dedication
#Ground
#Love
#Myself
#Things
When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.
- Susan Orlean
#Cheap
#Own
#Phone
#Rain
#Time
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
- Susan Orlean
#Done
#Myself
#Procrastination
#Things
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
- Susan Orlean
#I Am
#Information
#Power
#Privacy
#Well
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
- Susan Orlean
#Good
#Matter
#Me
#News
#Why
Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.
- Susan Orlean
#Black
#Country
#Grit
#Roads
#White
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
- Susan Orlean
#Experience
#Life
#Living
#Space
#World
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
- Susan Orlean
#Birthday
#Calendar
#New
#Remembering
Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.
- Susan Orlean
#Brave
#Dark
#Perfect
#Pet
#Smart
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