Quote by George Saunders
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it

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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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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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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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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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. – Neal Barnard

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So my degree was in political science, which I think was – the closest I could come to marketing is politics. – Steve Case

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We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, its in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. – Zach Galifianakis

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Im not really involved with politics… Im living in my cocoon with my classical music around. – Eva Green

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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. – Henri Bergson

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