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Graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny ...
— George Saunders
Even the nuns went racist after the convent was reappraised and it seemed their pension fund was in jeopardy.
— George Saunders
A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.
— George Saunders
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
— George Saunders
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.
— George Saunders
In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace.
— George Saunders
If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny.
— George Saunders
In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage.
— George Saunders
Once again I am only who I am.
— George Saunders
Deer Reeder: First may I say, sorry for any werds I spel rong. Because I am a fox! So don't rite or spel perfect.
— George Saunders
I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say somethingdignifies and improves a person. — George Saunders
Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include ... well, EVERYTHING.
— George Saunders
Jincy Willett, Sam Lipsyte, Flannery O'Connor, and George Saunders. Oh, and I love Paul Rudnick in The New Yorker.
— Pamela Paul
I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion,
— George Saunders
By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.
— George Saunders
Love, love, I know what you are.
— George Saunders
If you want your Storys to end happy, try being niser.
— George Saunders
Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.
— George Saunders
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
— Zooey Deschanel
Got used to being slightly sad!
— George Saunders
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
— George Saunders
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
— George Saunders
A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
— George Saunders
You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod.""A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course you never mention that. — George Saunders
So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.
— George Saunders
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I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.
— George Saunders
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
— George Saunders
All night I have bad dreams about severed hands. In one I'm eating chili and a hand comes out of my bowl and gives me the thumbs-down. I
— George Saunders
He seems to have a passable knowledge of how to pretend to churn butter.
— George Saunders
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
— George Saunders
Err in the direction of kindness.
— George Saunders
He was like the bed at a party on which they pile the coats.
— George Saunders
You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.
— George Saunders
Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.
— George Saunders
Think of how lovely it all could have been had anything gone right, and then I think: Oh heavens, why prolong it, I've no income now.
— George Saunders
The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.
— George Saunders
So say you are charged with, you and some of your colleagues, lifting a heavy dead whale carcass onto a flatbed.
— George Saunders
George Saunders is a complete genius.
— Bill Hader
If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.
— George Saunders
And I woslike: O wow.
— George Saunders
I'm comfortable with anything after the fact.
— George Saunders
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.
— George Saunders
I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.
— George Saunders
So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it:
— George Saunders
But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.
— George Saunders
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.
— George Saunders
He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.
— George Saunders
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.
— George Saunders
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.
— George Saunders
It's a big world, and I really like it.
— George Saunders
Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent.
— George Saunders
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
— George Saunders
Our country is big, let us be big.
— George Saunders
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
— George Saunders
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A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me.
— George Saunders
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only
— George Saunders
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
— George Saunders
I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.
— George Saunders
Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).
— George Saunders
Which maybe that's what love was: liking someone how he was and doing things to help him get even better.
— George Saunders
Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.George Saunders
The Bookseller — C. Robert Cales
...smile first, then speak.
— George Saunders
I was back to feeling myself which, believe me, is no picnic.
— George Saunders
What once were two, are one
— George Saunders
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.
— George Saunders
You were just a caretaker. They didn't have to feel what you felt; they just had to be supported in feeling what they felt.
— George Saunders
Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too.
— George Saunders
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
— George Saunders
I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.
— George Saunders
Even a Canadian baby with a harelip would be beyond our means.
— George Saunders
World rips kid's guts out
— George Saunders
Why sad? Don't be sad. If sad, will make everyone sad.
— George Saunders
I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
— George Saunders
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
— George Saunders
I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.
— George Saunders
As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in.
— George Saunders
Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.
— George Saunders
She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.
— George Saunders
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
— George Saunders
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
— George Saunders
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
— George Saunders
Is this the baby?" I said.Ma turned on me again.
"What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk? — George Saunders
If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.
— George Saunders
Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.
— George Saunders
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
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
— George Saunders
Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'
— George Saunders
I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
— George Saunders
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
— George Saunders
Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it ... Err in the direction of kindness.
— George Saunders
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
— George Saunders
At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.
— George Saunders