#del

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

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #god #had #i #i think

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity. ↗

— George Saunders

#different #involves #literary #might #model

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. ↗

— Dan Savage

#expectation #fidelity #important #infidelity #marriage

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#delicate #delicate balance #gain #good #news

I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#break #clarify #i #i think #life

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#call #deliberate #genocide #let us #light

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#delight #despair #dreadful #end #feeds

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it. ↗

— Neal Schon

#deal #did #during #first #first time

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#guidelines #problems #signs #stop