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Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it com

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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When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable. – Susan Orlean

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I wish I had coined the phrase tyranny of choice, but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them. – Susan Orlean

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When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasnt the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror. – Susan Orlean

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. – Samuel Dash

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I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted. – Bryan Cranston

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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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I never viewed money as being my money I always saw it as the money. Its a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system. – Louis C. K.

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Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else. – Gail Simmons

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A boxers diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar. – Gene Tunney

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