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Susan Orlean Quotes

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.

Susan Orlean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1955

Topics

Children Social Media Parents Media

It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.

Sufjan Stevens

People Church Political Personal

I never go anywhere without my iPod.

Robert Carlyle

Go Never Without Anywhere iPod

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Miguel de Cervantes

Love Wings Absence Hours Our

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Monica Edwards

Happiness Safety Seem Her Dealing

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

Luca Parmitano

Opportunity People Speak Down Earth

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

Jose Saramago

World End Letters Manager Returning

I'm not mainstream. You gotta find me.

Dawn Richard

Me You Find Mainstream Gotta

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

David Suchet

People Write Difference Away Give

A lot of times, the internal R&D doesn't pan out. You go down one route, you find that it doesn't work the way you planned, and you have to switch and go down another one.

Brendan Iribe

Work You Find Down Go Way

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

Bruno Bauer

Service Chains Him Deceive His Very

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Armie Hammer

Time Food Kiss Restaurant Nap First

It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.

Ashwin Sanghi

History Past Me Present Try Connect