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Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is fr

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone. – Susan Orlean

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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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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 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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A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. Its a short letter – all she said was, Hey, since its harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza. I was like, Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home! – Zac Efron

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Its not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers – were much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. – Neil Gaiman

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By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, youve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time. – Richard M. Nixon

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Ive never had WiFi at home. Im too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. – Dave Eggers

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