George Saunders Tenth Of December Quotes

#1. Social conventions were avenues as much as barriers.

John Shirley

#2. Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

George Saunders

#3. All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

Liane Moriarty

#4. A whole other generation is coming up to me now - anywhere from 8 to 22 years old - wanting me to sign autographs. They think Journey was awesome.

Steve Perry

#5. I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

Cheryl Strayed

#6. Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

Tove Jansson

#7. Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty?

George Saunders

#8. He didn't like the thought of them knowing he'd been scared. Didn't like the thought of them knowing what a fool he'd been. Oh, to hell with that! Tell everyone! He'd done it! He'd been driven to do it and he'd done it and that was it. That was him. That was part of who he was.

George Saunders

#9. Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.

William Kentridge

#10. Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.

Anton Webern

#11. Why do my legs hurt from driving?" I said out loud. "I don't know. Mine are sore too." "That's from running around my mind all day." "Good one."

-Camden & Lacey

B.B. Hamel

#12. Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#13. When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

Jonathan Edwards

#14. Tearing down is always easier than building up,

Charlaine Harris

#15. Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

Margaret Atwood

#16. The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.

Donatella Versace

#17. Ma was out back, head in hands, weaving in and out of her heaped-up crap. It was both melodramatic and not. I mean, when Ma feels something deeply, that's what she does: melodrama. Which makes it, I guess, not melodrama?

George Saunders

#18. If you don't get what you want, you want what you get

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