"Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise."

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Susan Orlean

#Fate Quotes #Decision Quotes #Demise Quotes

“I'm very opinionated.”
“Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?”
“Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.”
“One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.”
“Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?”
“If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.”
“Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.”
“How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”

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