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

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Source : "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

George Saunders

#Cutting Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?”
“Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 17, 2017
“. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine or a nationalist one? In Germany especially, the whole super-nationalist ideology of the post-1871 empire is heavily imbued with religious teaching, chiefly Lutheran, and frankly viewing the new empire as the germ of the kingdom of God on Earth.”
“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”
“I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing”

Source : "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.
“The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.”
“When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about usually comes out in your writing.”
“On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.”

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