"He was a father. That's what a father……" — George Saunders
"He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime."
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143 Quotes by George Saunders
George Saunders has 143 quotes on this site.
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Err in the direction of kindness.
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Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
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Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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What once were two, are one
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I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave…
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More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and…
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The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that…
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The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date…
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It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.
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The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living…
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The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a…
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
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Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare…
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest…
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent…
— Bob Beauprez
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet…
— John Berger
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The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight…
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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things…
— Theodor Adorno
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'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We…
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