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

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Source : George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.56, A&C Black

George Saunders

“I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.”
“Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.”
“I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.”
“I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.”
“There's a page in #2 where I did one of the most interesting pages I've ever drawn. I had to think, "This is a big, blockbuster comic book." You're prepared to be more fan service-y or bombastic. Yet I did one of the most challenging pages I've ever drawn, and it was incredibly satisfying to do that on a project like this [All-Star Batman].”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.”

Source : Neala Schleuning, Meridel Le Sueur (1983). “America, song we sang without knowing: the life and ideas of Meridel LeSueur”, Don Olson Distribution
“You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime”
“Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.”

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