"I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes." — Susan Orlean
"I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes."
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126 Quotes by Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean has 126 quotes on this site.
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The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired.
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Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work…
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You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
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Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
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I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
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I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you…
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Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
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The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least,…
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Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
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I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and…
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Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
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When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.
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More Carrying Quotes
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads…
— Russell Baker
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it…
— Otto von Bismarck
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
— Erma Bombeck
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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true…
— Bono
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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live…
— Les Brown
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any…
— Madeleine Albright
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
— Taylor Caldwell
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I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable…
— Samuel Alito
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When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got…
— Dick Cheney
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.
— Sparky Anderson
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