George Saunders Quotes

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

George Saunders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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PowerfulStrangersKnowWillOwn

I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

Jessica Stroup

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I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

Jennifer Damiano

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It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

Matthew Walker

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It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

Sophia Loren

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I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

Sonia Sotomayor

BestNewThemYorkerNew Yorker

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

Tommy Thompson

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Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

Toni Servillo

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I'll tell you what I really loved: the version of 'Somebody to Love' that was in 'Happy Feet.' That was fantastic.

Roger Taylor

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Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.

Miranda Lambert

ImageYeah

If you don't have material, you don't have an experiment.

Mildred Dresselhaus

YouExperimentMaterial

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

Jon Bon Jovi

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