Quote by 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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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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The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and Im always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest. – Susan Orlean

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Sometimes I get so bold and Im so confident about what Im doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because its a really liberating feeling to experience what its like to not care. – John Mayer

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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. – John Stuart Mill

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No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isnt yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. – Roddy Doyle

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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. – George Washington

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