Quote by Susan Orlean
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle – a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own – and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. – Susan Orlean

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The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that Im tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep. – Susan Orlean

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Morning
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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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In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I havent listened to in years. – Susan Orlean

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Music
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I grew up in a very toxic home. – Bethenny Frankel

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I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. – Andy Warhol

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Ive always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because theyre basically professional equivalents of a mix tape Id make for you at home. – Quentin Tarantino

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I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesnt. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home. – Shahrukh Khan

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The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

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At last is Hector stretchd upon the plain,
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Achilles absent was Achilles still:
Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,
Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. – Homer

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