"The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step."

-- George Saunders

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.”
“True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.”
“Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.”

Source : David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
“My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.”
“Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power....”
“Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.”

Source : Speech to American Bar Association, Atlanta, Ga., 22 Oct. 1964
“Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.”

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