Quote by George Saunders
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, e

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesnt eradicate the reality of the suffering. Its all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. – 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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Family
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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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The word funny is a bit like the word love – we dont have enough words to describe the many varieties. – George Saunders

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I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or convulsive beauty – beauty in the service of liberty. – Jeff Vandermeer

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Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? – George Bernard Shaw

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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. – Ken Thompson

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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. – Paul Klee

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Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage. – Author Unknown

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It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. – Helen Rowland

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

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