George Saunders Quotes

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

George Saunders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

Joe Gold

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A lot of the people I know connect through working. We're all so ambitious. Sometimes my friends will say, 'I want to hang out with you.' And I just go, 'Well, let's do a project together.' That's the only way I can.

Jill Soloway

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And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

Jerry Garcia

MeI CanMoreUpStillThan

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

John Lurie

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I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

Matthew Fox

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I experience God as the power of love.

John Shelby Spong

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I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Tryon Edwards

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My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.

Tommy Shaw

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I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Robert Fisk

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For my father, he didn't know what 'Grey's Anatomy' was. He didn't know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up on the 'Law & Order' TNT promo spot, he thought, 'Wow, my son has made it.'

Mat Kearney

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