Famous Quotes
"I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own)."
More quotes about Cool
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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
Thomas Jefferson on Cool -
"Rather be dead than cool."
Kurt Cobain on Cool -
"All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."
Angelina Jolie on Cool -
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
Walt Whitman on Cool -
"It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof."
Bill Gates on Cool
More quotes by George Saunders
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"We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish."
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"My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect."
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"I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime."
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"I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar."
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"The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years."