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The scariest thought in the world is that someday Ill wake up and

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 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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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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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 dont think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if thats Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. Theyre telling you to give them your money otherwise youre going to hell. – Matthew Fox

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My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – whats going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Fear of the future is worse than ones present fortune. – Quintilian

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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. – David Herbert Lawrence

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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one. – Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964

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A woman is as young as her knees. – Mary Quant

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. – Lucille Ball

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Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. – Dave Barry

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