#chin

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

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. ↗

— Dan Savage

#arms #choir #discourse #does #elevates

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that. ↗

— Devon Sawa

#different #doing #film #go #i

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#amateur #been #coming #country #denials

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#both #deceptive #english #english language #half

The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#high school #i #school #seinfeld #watched

The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#built #episodes #exceptional #given #network

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#actually #i #job #life #looking

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia. ↗

— Michael Scott

#billy graham #change #could #ethiopia #graham

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#amendment #behind #children #closely #corporate