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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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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It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
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Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of, you know, medieval idea. All right, instead of just cooking them, why don't you spend, like, eight hours peeling them and then we'll have to mash them up. It feels like prison labor, really.
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.
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My father, the colonel, is for the king; yours for the Parliament.
