Susan Orlean Quotes

Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

Susan Orlean

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Mountain

• I'm a man without a corporation.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Man
  • Without
  • Corporation

• I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Say

• My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • People
  • Trying
  • War

• We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Profound
  • Take
  • Express

• I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Science
  • You
  • Go

• The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Chinese

• When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Pictures

• But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

  

  N. K. Jemisin

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

• If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Children
  • Taken

• I didn't spend money on nothin'. Besides my daughter, bucket hats, and weed.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Daughter
  • Hats
  • Buckets

• The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Celebrity
  • Entertainers

• Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Universe
  • Littles
  • Might

• Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

  

  Susan Orlean
  • Books
  • Destroying
  • Sentence