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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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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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I dont turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. – Susan Orlean

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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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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. – Robert M. Pirsig

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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. – Karl Marx

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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford

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Im not a genius. Im just a tremendous bundle of experience. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it. – Maxim Gorky

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An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. – Proverb

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I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me. – Jamie Redknapp

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