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Quote by George Saunders
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the

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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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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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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When I was a kid, I took The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. – George Saunders

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So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round. – Dennis Bergkamp

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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. – Terry Eagleton

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Im a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But Im a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America – which I find such a positive place – well, I took to it like a duck to water. – Victoria Beckham

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Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive. – Jean M. Auel

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Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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