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Quote by George Saunders
The word funny is a bit like the word love - we dont have enough w

The word funny is a bit like the word love – we dont have enough words to describe the many varieties. – George Saunders

Other quotes by George Saunders

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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positive
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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

Category:
Age
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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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George Saunders
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Other Quotes from
funny
category

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that its going to collapse on his head. – Rufus Sewell

Category:
funny

Electricity is really just organized lightning. – George Carlin

Category:
funny

Its funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House thats causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, its in the Bush Administration. – Roger Ebert

Category:
funny

I mean, Im married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything – funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits. – Seal

Category:
funny

Random Quotes

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system. – Paul Gillmor

Category:
legal

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple… – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Category:
Autumn

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. – W. Somerset Maugham

Category:
Freedom

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Adaptability