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

We have that illusion that we are deciding what to make a character do, in order to convey our message or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide whos been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. – George Saunders

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Experience
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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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positive
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Other Quotes from
funny
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Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. – Tobias Wolff

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funny

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips. – R. L. Stine

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funny

Ive always found it easier to be funny than to be serious. – Molly Ivins

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funny

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life. – Mark Ruffalo

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funny

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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. – Francis H. Bradley, Aphorisms, 1930

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Quotations

People try to treat technology as an object, and it cant be. It can only be a channel. – Jaron Lanier

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Technology

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology. – Alexander McCall Smith

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Technology

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen

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strength