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 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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A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. – George Saunders

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Intelligence
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I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like Im in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life – or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations. – George Saunders

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You know youre getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. Its like, See if you can blow this out. – Jerry Seinfeld

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. – Bob Hope

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My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. Shed put it in the shopping cart and wed walk out. I was raised with that. – Vincent Gallo

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The first fact about the celebration of birthdays is that it is a good way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive. – G.K. Chesterton, “Our Birthday,” 1935

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