You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx. Min and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Father," she said late one night. "I can't keep up. Our goats are dying. We're going to have to ask the neighbors… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“When a child is lost there is no end to the self-torment a parent may inflict. When we love, and the object… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Every human is born of man and woman. Every human, at birth, is, or at least has the potential to be, beloved… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Matt Merton comes back and explains that last week's show on suicide, in which the parents watched a reenactment of their son's… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading… — 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
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
