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George Saunders Quotes: "What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness."

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.



George Saunders Quotes: "What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly."

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.




George Saunders Quotes: "Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial."

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.



George Saunders Quotes: "Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth."

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.




George Saunders Quotes: "According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now."

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.



George Saunders Quotes: "It's a big world, and I really like it."

It's a big world, and I really like it.



George Saunders Quotes: "Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain."

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.




George Saunders Quotes: "The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?"

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?



George Saunders Quotes: "I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies."

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.



George Saunders Quotes: "Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING."

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.



George Saunders Quotes: "When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo."

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.



George Saunders Quotes: "I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph."

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.




George Saunders Quotes: "We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish."

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.



George Saunders Quotes: "Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others)."

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).



George Saunders Quotes: "My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day."

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.



George Saunders Quotes: "The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind."

The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.



George Saunders Quotes: "Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?"

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?



George Saunders Quotes: "So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it."

So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.



George Saunders Quotes: "It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore."

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.



George Saunders Quotes: "It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength."

It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.



George Saunders Quotes: "I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft."

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.



George Saunders Quotes: "So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long."

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.



George Saunders Quotes: "...smile first, then speak."

...smile first, then speak.



George Saunders Quotes: "The idea of inclusion has become kind of a stone that we've passed our hand over so many times that it doesn't mean anything."

The idea of inclusion has become kind of a stone that we've passed our hand over so many times that it doesn't mean anything.



George Saunders Quotes: "Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to."

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.



George Saunders Quotes: "The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom."

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.



George Saunders Quotes: "When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world."

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.



George Saunders Quotes: "Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up."

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.



George Saunders Quotes: "Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored."

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.



George Saunders Quotes: "Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle."

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.



George Saunders Quotes: "Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored."

Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored.



George Saunders Quotes: "I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way."

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.



George Saunders Quotes: "Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived."

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.



George Saunders Quotes: "Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness."

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.



George Saunders Quotes: "So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity."

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.



George Saunders Quotes: "If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience."

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.



George Saunders Quotes: "When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be."

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.



George Saunders Quotes: "One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind."

One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly powerful; not the brain but the mind.



George Saunders Quotes: "It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution."

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.



George Saunders Quotes: "Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates."

Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.



George Saunders Quotes: "I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope."

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.



George Saunders Quotes: "It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent."

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.



George Saunders Quotes: "Err in the direction of kindness."

Err in the direction of kindness.



George Saunders Quotes: "The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present."

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.



George Saunders Quotes: "Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing."

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.



George Saunders Quotes: "I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings."

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.



George Saunders Quotes: "The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness."

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.



George Saunders Quotes: "Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings."

Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.



George Saunders Quotes: "The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery."

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.