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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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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Education
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I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of student-athletes. I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I dont believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but thats another story. – Susan Orlean

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Money
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When a man opens a car door for his wife, its either a new car or a new wife. – Prince Philip

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I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert – they write from the heart. But its hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift. – Lucy Hale

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car

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out. – David Alan Grier

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car

I dont run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. – David Attenborough

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car

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How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant. – John Abbott

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Ive had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage. – Jane Seymour

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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. – Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

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