I know this will sound naïve, but I often wonder what America would be like if our national ethos was simply to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. roger bevins iii It was the nature of things. hans vollman… — 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
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Ellis was a stately, regal woman, always surrounded by three gelatinous orbs floating about her person, each containing a likeness of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“From nothingness, there arose great love; now, its source nullified, that love, searching and sick, converts to the most abysmal suffering imaginable.” — 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
