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title: "56 Way Quotes By George Saunders"
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> [That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/that-seems-to-be-the-definition-of-novel-for-me-a-story-that-hasn-t/)

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> [Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/monologue-is-the-most-honest-way-to-represent-human-beings/)

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> [What's really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/what-s-really-baffling-to-me-is-the-way-that-the-technology-has-risen/)

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> [Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/whether-you-re-eighteen-or-sixty-in-a-certain-way-whatever-you-know/)

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> [In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/in-a-certain-way-we-re-always-toggling-back-and-forth-between-the/)

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> [I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-ve-seen-time-and-time-again-the-way-that-the-process-of-trying-to/)

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> [Monologues, in some ways, are the most scientific descriptions of consciousness and even of gatherings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/monologues-in-some-ways-are-the-most-scientific-descriptions-of/)

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> [Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/some-of-our-writers-are-starting-to-incorporate-elements-of-social/)

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> [The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/the-main-thing-a-childhood-in-the-church-did-for-me-i-think-was-set/)

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> [When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/when-you-do-something-that-s-going-to-speak-to-people-it-s-going-to/)

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> [I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-love-the-feeling-of-being-on-the-hunt-the-feeling-that-the-story-is/)

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> [When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/when-i-m-explaining-something-to-you-if-i-m-being-long-winded-and/)

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> [Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/whatever-your-supposed-politics-are-left-right-if-you-put-it-in-a/)

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> [It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/it-was-like-either-a-i-was-a-terrible-guy-who-was-knowingly-doing/)

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> [That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/that-s-the-only-way-that-i-can-figure-out-how-to-live-is-to-say-well/)

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> [Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/being-in-church-so-often-spending-those-hours-sitting-in-front-of-a/)

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> [I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-was-not-an-altar-boy-but-a-reader-of-the-epistle-and-i-walked-in-on/)

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> [I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-heard-zen-teacher-one-time-talking-about-abortion-and-he-was-saying/)

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> [Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/suddenly-absurdism-wasn-t-an-intellectual-abstraction-it-was-actually/)

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> [The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/the-artist-s-job-i-think-is-to-be-a-conduit-for-mystery-to-intuit-it/)

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> [As Flannery O'Connor says, a person can choose what she writes but she can't choose what she makes live. Some people are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/as-flannery-o-connor-says-a-person-can-choose-what-she-writes-but-she/)

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> [As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/as-a-young-kid-i-assumed-that-everybody-was-sort-of-on-the-same/)

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> [ I really wanted to be allowed to the \[writer's\] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-really-wanted-to-be-allowed-to-the-writer-s-table-so-it-makes-me/)

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> [As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/as-much-as-we-in-a-revisionist-way-tell-ourselves-that-we-ve-always/)

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> [I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-have-a-sense-that-god-is-unfair-and-preferentially-punishes-his/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-might-take-from-the-current-political-chaos-a-desire-to-somehow/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/if-you-want-to-explore-a-political-idea-in-the-highest-possible-way/)

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> [When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/when-i-was-a-kid-i-took-the-brady-bunch-and-the-partridge-family-very/)

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> [I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-think-each-writer-has-to-seek-her-most-energetic-prose-style-she/)

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> [I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-knew-if-i-evoked-that-stuff-too-easily-or-gratuitously-as-a-way-of/)

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> [It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. But I can look back at the way I thought and felt even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/it-is-technically-very-hard-to-show-positive-manifestations-but-i-can/)

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> [Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/sometimes-i-think-fiction-exists-to-model-the-way-god-might-think-of/)

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> [I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-think-kindness-is-a-sort-of-gateway-virtue-having-that-simple/)

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> [I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-find-that-the-great-artists-i-ve-met-are-people-who-are-so/)

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> [I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/i-don-t-think-much-new-ever-happens-most-of-us-spend-our-days-the/)

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> [If you have a friend, what's the best way you can experience her beauty? It's to really accept her. She's weird in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/if-you-have-a-friend-what-s-the-best-way-you-can-experience-her/)

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> [This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/this-may-be-the-one-clear-truth-of-the-so-called-border-issue-put-a/)

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> [There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/there-are-things-that-are-shadow-sides-of-the-creative-energy-that/)

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> [In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/in-a-sense-my-whole-life-as-a-writer-is-trying-to-find-structural/)

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> [One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/one-of-the-ways-that-we-cope-with-anxiety-is-by-over-planning-and/)

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## Other authors on Way

## More by 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/success-is-like-a-mountain-in-front-of-you-that-keeps-growing-if-you/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/wow-wow-wow-is-all-i-can-say-remember-how-i-always-buy-lunchtime/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/none-of-it-was-real-nothing-was-real-everything-was-real/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/we-must-see-god-not-as-a-him-some-linear-rewarding-fellow-but-an-it-a/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/america-to-me-should-be-shouting-all-the-time-a-bunch-of-shouting/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/in-my-case-when-i-am-trying-to-be-kind-i-often-default-in-a-sort-of/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/whatever-your-supposed-politics-are-left-right-if-you-put-it-in-a/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/a-clinton-staffer-tells-me-his-theory-think-about-frank-sinatra-he/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/we-try-we-fail-we-posture-we-aspire-we-pontificate-and-then-we-age/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/you-were-torturing-a-cat-she-says-with-a-freaking-prod-a-prod-i-built/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/rachel-got-up-and-did-this-happy-little-shuffle-like-she-was-some/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/what-america-is-to-me-is-a-guy-doesn-t-want-to-buy-you-let-him-not/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/what-good-the-prophet-in-the-wilderness-may-do-is-incremental-and/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/we-re-in-the-transition-between-birth-and-death-but-the-one-that/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

> [You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/you-don-t-want-to-be-that-parent-the-one-who-dresses-his-kid-in-a/)

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