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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Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.
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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.
