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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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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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The scariest thought in the world is that someday Ill wake up and realize Ive been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. – George Saunders

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I dont intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. – Harold Pinter

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When I see a dolphin, I know its just as smart as I am. – Don Van Vliet

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. – Alfred North Whitehead

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