Quote by George Saunders
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. – George Saunders

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Whatever your supposed politics are – left, right – if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. – George Saunders

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Politics
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When I was a kid, I took The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. – George Saunders

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Family
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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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Truth
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. – Voltaire

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Age

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and thats the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever. – Ringo Starr

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Age

The best way to live your life is to go to the other side of the rainbow young, but at a very old age. – Craig D. Slovak

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Age

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. – Jessica Lange

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Age

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[H]ate brings to men wars and fear! – Gertrude Buckingham, “Christmas: The Birthday of Jesus, The Christ”

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for moneys sake. – John D. Rockefeller

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Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it. – Danny Kaye

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Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether. – Surya Singer

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