Susan Orlean Quotes - Page 3

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• 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

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  Light, Brave, Thanks

  "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

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  Choices, Modern Life, Internet

  "Bootless" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

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  Car, House, Fixation

  "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.

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• Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.

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  Dog, Wall, Smart

  "Hero Dogs" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2011.

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• The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

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  Problem, Desks, Compulsion

  "The Walking Alive" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way... Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it's working and the rhythm's there, it does feel like magic to me.

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  Song, Reading, Writing

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• I didn't want to talk, and I didn't think dogs could solve my problems. But they were so uncritical and un-judgmental. Sometimes when you're really blue, you don't want to talk, but you want that sense of companionship. I certainly enjoy that with my beasts.

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  Dog, Thinking, Blue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.

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  Animal, Different, Creatures

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.

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  Educational, Thinking, Stories

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it judiciously: it's a self-selected group, so it's important not to start thinking of it as the whole world.

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  Thinking, Self, Important

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

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  Writing, Mean, Discovery

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

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  Clothes, People, Design

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

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  Running, Responsibility, Successful

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only an extreme, not an aberration - that most people in some way or another do strive for something exceptional, something to pursue, even at their peril, rather than abide an ordinary life.

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  People, Way, Ordinary

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

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  Car, Soul, Promise

  "Wheels" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2010.

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• In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

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  Zoos, Perfect, Quality

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Real, School, Names

  "@leapofFaith" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.

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  Thinking, Phones, Different

  "iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

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  New York, Writing, Class

  "An Education" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

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  Writing, Pieces, Magazines

  "Why a Blog?" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2010.

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• 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 limiting but liberating.

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  Dog, Past, Pet

  Susan Orlean (2012). “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog”, p.235, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

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  Self, Imagine, Assured

  "Thomas Kinkade: Death of a Kitsch Master" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

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  Animal, Water, Chickens

  "Chicken Chores" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Girlfriend, Children, Boys

  "The Social Index" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

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  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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