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Needs Quotes by George Saunders
- Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause…
- Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like…
- The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain…
- When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
- I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure…
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