Quote by George Saunders
We have that illusion that we are deciding what to make a characte

We have that illusion that we are deciding what to make a character do, in order to convey our message or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide whos been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. – 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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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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Im finding, as I get older, that Im not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life – redemption does happen, and its cool when it does – but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). – George Saunders

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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you cant teach people that – they have to learn by experience. – Dorothy L. Sayers

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. – George Bernard Shaw

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Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. – Arnold Palmer

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I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and its a way of laughing at it and getting a release. – Joaquin Phoenix

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Every good painter paints what he is. – Jackson Pollock

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An optimist is the human personification of spring. – Susan J. Bissonette

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I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die. – William Wiley

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I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy. – Jesse Jackson

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