The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Calm, Fight, Mind, 0 - George Saunders Copy
Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Heart, Responsibility, 0 - George Saunders Copy
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Age, Failing, 0 - George Saunders Copy
It’s funny with fiction – once you cut something, it hasn’t happened anymore. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Fiction, Happened, 0 - George Saunders Copy
Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Writing, 0 - George Saunders Copy
So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Childhood, 0 - George Saunders Copy
A country doesn’t need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Country, Leader, Running, 0 - George Saunders Copy
The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Disaster, 0 - George Saunders Copy
If you haven’t read you don’t have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Voice, 0 - George Saunders Copy
So, good news/bad news: good news that I’m progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Art, Life Is Short, 0 - George Saunders Copy
Chekhov – shall I be blunt? – is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Stories, 0 - George Saunders Copy
When I write I know that I’m going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Produce, Writing, 0 - George Saunders Copy
I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Air, Stories, Writing, 0 - George Saunders Copy
I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Compassion, 0 - George Saunders Copy
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Heartfelt, Self, Wish, 0 - George Saunders Copy
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Empathy, Feelings, Guilt, 0 - George Saunders Copy
As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, 0 - George Saunders Copy
What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Evil, 0 - George Saunders Copy
Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Confused, Confusion, 0 - George Saunders Copy
Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Crossroads, Moral, 0 - George Saunders Copy
Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Doors, Fiction, 0 - George Saunders Copy
I don’t mind being criticized intelligently; although I don’t love it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Mind, 0 - George Saunders Copy
We have not been energetic enough – white people haven’t – in pursuing racial equity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Enough, 0 - George Saunders Copy
Compassion doesn’t have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Compassion, Enabling, Weak, 0 - George Saunders Copy
My artistic approach is that you’re supposed to be a little baffled. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saunders, Artistic, 0 - George Saunders Copy
If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, ‘Jesus wins. - Jud Wilhite Pastor
It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on. - Julian Assange Publisher · Australia
Man’s earthly interests,’are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes. - Thomas Carlyle Philosopher and historian · Scotland
We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications. - Edward Snowden System Administrator · USA
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache - Chinua Achebe Novelist · Nigeria
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. Explain - Benjamin Franklin Founding Father of the United States · USA
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. - Mary Catherine Bateson Anthropologist · USA
We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work. - Stewart D. Friedman Professor
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. - Marcus Terentius Varro Scholar · Italy
