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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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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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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 try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. – George Saunders

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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. – Otis Blackwell

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The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friends birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember peoples birthdays. – Julianna Margulies

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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. – Jerry M. Wright

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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. – Erma Bombeck

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