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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The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
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We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.
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I am not a party person.
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Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody's staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.
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We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.
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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.
