“If/when I die, do not want Pam lonely. Want her to remarry, have full life. As long as new husband is nice… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: under-appreciating the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I can look back and see that I’ve spent much of my life in a cloud of things that have tended to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Never in my nearly eighty years of life on earth had I experienced a greater or more bitter contrast between happiness (the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist texts, some of them say, when you die, basically that wild horse gets cut loose, and the mind is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Note to self: Try to extend positive feelings associated with Scratch-Off win into all areas of life. Be bigger presence at work.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Strange, isn’t it? To have dedicated one’s life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one’s life, only to have that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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