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Way Quotes by George Saunders
- Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort —…
- 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 insulted. And you'd…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
- That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
- The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in…
- It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't…
- Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and…
- This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way…
- I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking…
- 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…
- It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so…
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen