George Saunders

In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage. ↗

— George Saunders

#page- #marriage

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. ↗

— George Saunders

#humour #humor

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. ↗

— George Saunders

#irony #just #up #volume

Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent. ↗

— George Saunders

#humor #satire #humor

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think? ↗

— George Saunders

#life #love #parenthood #parenting #life

He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime. ↗

— George Saunders

#love #love

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #business

Succeeding, whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it). ↗

— George Saunders

#inspirational

I have plenty of friends," she says. "Name one." She looks at me. Which I guess is sort of sweet. ↗

— George Saunders

#friendship

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news. ↗

— George Saunders

#bad-news #funny #humor #funny