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If you havent read you dont have the voice. The lack of voice elim

If you havent read you dont have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. – 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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funny
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I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like Im in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life – or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. – George Saunders

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positive
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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And hes made of sugar. – George Saunders

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. – Richard Dawkins

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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. – Jack Nicklaus

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Experience

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Experience

Yes, Ive listened to just a few audiobooks – but hope to listen to more. Ive wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating. – Joyce Carol Oates

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When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. – Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika

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The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler. – Mario Batali

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General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation. – Chief Joseph

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Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. – George Mason

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