Quote by Susan Orlean
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confid

Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldnt have to come in contact with it. – Susan Orlean

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I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle – a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own – and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. – Susan Orlean

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Home
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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

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Experience
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I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise. – Susan Orlean

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A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. – Eleanor Robson Belmont

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car

Because of that I dont care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh? – Ruud van Nistelrooy

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car

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, were planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty. – Carlos Ghosn

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car

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia. – Jean Pigozzi

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car

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