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From Quotes by Susan Orlean
- 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 lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not…
- A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
- What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from…
- I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand…
- Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on…
- Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head,…
- 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…
- When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at…
- Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the…
- You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there…
- The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks…
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