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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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The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and thats where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you dont come home your best self. – George Saunders

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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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The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. – George Saunders

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It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside. – Chris Tucker

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I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. – Giacomo Casanova

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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence. – Lao Tzu

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As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives. – John O. Brennan

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We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides. – Junichiro Tanizaki

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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. – David Brinkley

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Ive always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, Hi, that the people ought to get their moneys worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me. – Marilyn Monroe

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