George Saunders Quotes

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

George Saunders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeGoodTruthPeopleLiterature

If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We don't have a compound eye. I don't think we process sensory information the same way. The muscles that they use are just incredibly much more sophisticated and interesting than the muscles we use.

Michael Dickinson

GreatFlyEyeThinkInterestingYou

I was top-10 once upon a time in this league, and I took a quick drop-off. Like, that's just not normal.

Metta World Peace

TimeQuickNormalJustLikeOnce

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.

Steve James

TrustPeopleFoundationThinkBetter

I know, when I was growing up, a lot of the views I was listening to, it was a worldview that was not helpful. The world even sold me a false idea of what the good life was, and I wish that people would have helped me to think better about how to interact with that worldview.

Trip Lee

LifeGoodPeopleGrowing UpWorld

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

Tori Amos

ChildNightThinkYouPigNeed

People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.

Travis Bradberry

WomenMenLiePeopleConversation

Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better.

Rod Steiger

GreatThinkBetterBadSometimes

I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.

Lisa Jewell

HistoryTimeTogetherHusbandWarm

I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.

Debby Ryan

GirlMovingYouNewKnowRespond

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

Anthony Hopkins

QualityMindDreamPeculiarSometime

I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.

Susan Orlean

WorkLovedMoreWorthyOutGadgets

People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

NaturePeopleCuriosityUniverseOut

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