#ay

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#because #character #did #extremes #fact

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#elected #election #every #i #parliamentary

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#existed #i #long #may #member

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#captured #french #german #happened #high

I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe. ↗

— Hank Sauer

#chewing #how #i #know #must

I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#climb #could #great #great opportunity #i

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. ↗

— George Saunders

#fear #habitual #hurtful #i #i love

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies. ↗

— George Saunders

#always #around #avoidance #aware #come

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