George Saunders Quotes
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just gather material and find a scenario, and see where it takes me. I don't have a plan.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.
