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George Saunders Quotes

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I’m comfortable with anything after the fact  (George Saunders Quotes) I actually do believe in life after death  (George Saunders Quotes) The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long  (George Saunders Quotes) Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.  (George Saunders Quotes) ...smile first, then speak.  (George Saunders Quotes) If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience  (George Saunders Quotes) Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored  (George Saunders Quotes) Character is that sum total of moments we can’t explain  (George Saunders Quotes) Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up  (George Saunders Quotes) Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored  (George Saunders Quotes) It’s a big world, and I really like it  (George Saunders Quotes) ... smile first, then speak  (George Saunders Quotes) Every step was a victory. He had to remember that  (George Saunders Quotes) What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness  (George Saunders Quotes) Err in the direction of kindness  (George Saunders Quotes) Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within  (George Saunders Quotes) What once were two, are one  (George Saunders Quotes) The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery  (George Saunders Quotes) The word ‘funny’ is a bit like the word ‘love’ - we don’t have enough words to describe the many varieties  (George Saunders Quotes) One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there’s a quality of real fearlessness in it - you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience  (George Saunders Quotes) I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I’m starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow  (George Saunders Quotes) It’s one thing to be a perfectionist when you’re alone, but when you’re trying to make it work in an ensemble that’s a whole different deal  (George Saunders Quotes) Even when the faith goes away, there’s that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that’s kind of where art came in, after that  (George Saunders Quotes) Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances  (George Saunders Quotes) When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus  (George Saunders Quotes) Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another  (George Saunders Quotes) Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them  (George Saunders Quotes) To me, the writer’s main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she’s right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That’s the theory, anyway  (George Saunders Quotes) Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived  (George Saunders Quotes) I was trained in seismic prospecting. We’d drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill  (George Saunders Quotes)
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