Quote by George Saunders
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And hes made of sugar. – George Saunders

Other quotes by George Saunders

Whatever your supposed politics are – left, right – if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. – George Saunders

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Politics
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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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Fear
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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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Other Quotes from
Birthday
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I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house. – Sue Townsend

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Birthday

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing Happy Birthday to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips. – Amy Poehler

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Birthday

Im a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. – Sloane Crosley

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Birthday

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. – Sammy Hagar

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Birthday

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain. – Susan B. Anthony

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I try to act out of faith. – Marian Wright Edelman

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Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts… for support rather than illumination. – Source Unknown

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