Quote by George Saunders
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us f

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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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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A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. – George Saunders

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Intelligence
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The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as the Vegas of the Middle East or the Venice of the Middle East or the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert – have been built in the last ten years. – George Saunders

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Tell the children the truth. – Bob Marley

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Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. – George Washington

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To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. – Milan Kundera

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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. – Josh Billings

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Truth

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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. – Yogi Berra

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It is not worth an intelligent mans time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. – G. H. Hardy

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Intelligence

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, “Let there be light!” And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Light

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Intelligence