Quote by George Saunders
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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If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too. – 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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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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I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment. – Lee Child

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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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You dont cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. – Andre Agassi

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. – Samuel Smiles

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