#again

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. ↗

— George Saunders

#believe #briefly #center #delusion #else

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#atomic #atomic energy #cloud #coming #dangerous

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#against #colleagues #democrats #door #fact

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#continue #headway #i #i think #leaders

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#afford #against #been #called #cannot

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#contend #gods #stupidity #themselves #vain

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#am #being #being human #book #done

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#away #feel #getting #i #myself

After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I'm so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#again #band #could #definitely #eat