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I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think Ill probably be given jewelry instead. – 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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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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car
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There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. – Susan Orlean

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My mom wont let me buy high-fashion stuff unless its TK Maxx or a birthday occasion. – Chloe Moretz

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I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcocks 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me. – Rod Taylor

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The first fact about the celebration of birthdays is that it is a good way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive. – G.K. Chesterton, “Our Birthday,” 1935

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I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. – Diane von Furstenberg

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