Quote by George Saunders
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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We have that illusion that we are deciding what to make a character do, in order to convey our message or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide whos been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. – 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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We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration. – Martin Sheen

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The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a societys democratic values. – Tim Holden

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Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society. – Robert Carlyle

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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. – A. J. Liebling

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Its a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them. – Louis C. K.

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All concords born of contraries. – Ben Jonson

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Power is the great aphrodisiac. – Henry A. Kissinger

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