Quote by George Saunders Download Open image ““As that gentleman passed through, I felt a kinship.”” — George Saunders ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Often, I felt there was something unsaid behind them, a deeper interpretation I was supposed to take from it and I wondered just how… — Nicky James Copy Share Image
“Kinship is the work of coincidence, sweetheart. The only thing it truly engenders is proximity. And sometimes not even that, as plenty of the… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“My father passed me. He looked briefly at me as you might at a stump or a broken machine or anything that’s specific only… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Abruptly, they seemed alike to me and equally dear: my father, my son. I felt as though my father had been waiting for this… — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“I learned to accept my family for who they were and understand that, though they might be limited in certain areas, they all had… — Caprice Crane Copy Share Image
“I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover. He had… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, I couldn't turn away from his piecing, infectious gaze. He was wrong and tragic and gorgeous all at the same time. At that… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I have crossed over, and that childhood is as far away and strange as something that happened to someone else in a land beyond… — Kermit Roosevelt III Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“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,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“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… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
