"Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school."

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Source : "Advice" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2010.

Susan Orlean

#Father Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“My friends, there are no friends.”
“No problem is so intractable that something interesting cannot be said about it.”
“In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If we are not careful, a great adventure of the mind will become yet another profession.”
“When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.”
“It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?”
“Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.”
“Death is the end of every worldly pain.”

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