Political Quotes by George Saunders

8 Political quotes by George Saunders

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All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that…

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Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably…

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One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or…

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I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you…

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One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word -…

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To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don't know anything about to be some form of, quote, political…

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If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something…

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I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant…

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Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

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“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, every Friday, to reward self for good week, I stop at store near home, treat self to Butterfinger, plus Scratch-Off ticket. Sometimes, if hard week, two Butterfingers. Sometimes, if very hard week, three Butterfingers. But, if…

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“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within…

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“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something…

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America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,…

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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…

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Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion…

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“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.…

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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

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“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course…

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“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…

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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 has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time,…

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