"What's funny is that the idea of popularity……" — Susan Orlean
"What's 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."
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Susan Orlean
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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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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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