George Saunders Quotes
If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.
Quotes to Explore
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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I respect the Premier League.
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I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.
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It's “Into Thin Air” there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.
