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The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
Susan Orlean
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Susan Orlean
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
Journalist
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Cleveland
Ohio
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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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Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
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A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
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I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.
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Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.
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My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?
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