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I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throug

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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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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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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Intelligence
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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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Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. – Judi Dench

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I believe… that security declines as security machinery expands. – E.B. White

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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. – Victor Hugo

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The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. – Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. – Van Morrison

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

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