George Saunders Quotes

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

George Saunders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1958

Topics

PrayerPeopleBelieveReadingReal

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

Jim Ryun

DemocracyStrongRightProperty

My life would be better without Gristedes.

John Catsimatidis

LifeBetterMy LifeWithoutWould

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

Steve Ballmer

TimeMoneyHardPointMakeSome

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Robbie Williams

LifeMy LifeNeverFistAnybody

I love a good Roy Rogers or Shirley Temple, and I had to give those up. And Philly cheesesteaks. I love Philly cheesesteaks, and now they really aren't around anymore.

Ron Funches

LoveGoodNowTempleUpGive

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Minna Antrim

LovedAchieveFortunateHated

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.

Mitch Kapor

PassionInspireLongEarlyDays

What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.

Lisa Murkowski

PeopleMovingThinkYouDrunkLook

It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.

Jared Polis

CommunityGreatGrowUnderstanding

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Deborah Eisenberg

PerceptionLookingAlwaysEither

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

Penn Jillette

FreedomStupidWantMeans

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.

Paula Cole

ArtAlwaysPieceGladMadeWidely

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