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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

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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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Fear
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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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positive
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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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Society
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. – George Bernard Shaw

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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. – Author Unknown

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Birthday

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being let go. – Mika Brzezinski

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Birthday

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday. – Bobby Sherman

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Birthday

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We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. – David Grayson

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For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. I Corinthians – Bible

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God

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on. – Amelia E. Barr

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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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