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Things 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…
- If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel,…
- Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well,…
- If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn…
- It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the…
- To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right…
- I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of…
- I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only…
- My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant…
- ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no…
- Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.
- Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as you do, to…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle