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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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 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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We didnt have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic. – Lance Burton

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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. – Larry Lorenzoni

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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. – Jean Paul Richter

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My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him. – Loretta Lynn

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Birthday

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. – Lucan

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I never discuss a novel while Im writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. – Dean Koontz

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Fear

Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? – Lynn Hecht Schafran

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Childhood is a promise that is never kept. – Ken Hill

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