Quote by George Saunders
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened i

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and thats where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you dont come home your best self. – George Saunders

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The word funny is a bit like the word love – we dont have enough words to describe the many varieties. – George Saunders

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I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders

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Society
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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders

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The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven. – Rick Warren

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. – Francis Bacon

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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. – Jeanette Winterson

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The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you cant fly home. – Christopher Hitchens

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Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. – James Freeman Clarke

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Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musicians music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. – Charles de Lint

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The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will. – Jennifer Lopez

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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway

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