Susan Orlean Quotes

Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

Susan Orlean

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifeFakeInternetFeelSometimes

It wasn't easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with 'being famous,' and I'm just not into it, and I guess defensiveness gets read into that. And I didn't get an easy ride at the beginning.

Stella McCartney

RideBeginningFamousEasyUpGet

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

Spike Milligan

FunnyArmyLongFootFiveHow

I look cooking! Particularly pad thai.

Tom Weston-Jones

CookingLookThaiPadParticularly

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Rita Mae Brown

DivorceTragedyHumanEverything

I love the web, but man, I look at my browser, and there are, like, twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment... so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there's this peripheral haze.

Robin Sloan

WorkLoveTimeManSpaceLook

I'm a lucky gal.

Rosie Perez

LuckyGal

I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. I also try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. If you're going to buy a $2,000 jacket, you are going to want to wear it over and over.

Joseph Altuzarra

WomenBeautifulThinkFeelYouWant

I love Wisconsin. It's a great place.

Donald Trump

LoveGreatPlaceWisconsinI Love

Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

LivePeopleTreesUncomfortableEasy

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.

Craig Kilborn

MoneyWarFightingBudgetWillDays

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

Bob Woodward

WayWatergateSeniorAnonymityHid

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

August Krogh

PastRedPressureEdgeEvidence

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