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Quote by Susan Orlean
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things

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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Whats funny is that the idea of popularity – even the use of the word popular – is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern. – Susan Orlean

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funny
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I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when hes in his car? I hate that. – Susan Orlean

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Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience. – Susan Orlean

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In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didnt enable you to do that. It wasnt my style. – Cat Stevens

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The reward of suffering is experience. – Harry S. Truman

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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and theres something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly its not something that youre in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. – Carrie Fisher

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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot. – Abraham Lincoln

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. – J. G. Ballard

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Im still going to do television. Im just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests. – Bryant Gumbel

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