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Very Quotes by George Saunders
- The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss…
- 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…
- Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
- I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we…
- I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way…
- I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a…
- When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same…
- For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong