#hem

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. ↗

— George Saunders

#anyway #care #caring #dedicate #happen

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. ↗

— George Saunders

#brady #bunch #family #greek #had

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever. ↗

— Morley Safer

#back #because #chose #come #done

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#civilization #men #provided #required #them

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#history #i #intrigued #man #obscured

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#break #contradictions #difficulties #encounter #gentleness

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#about #by the time #down #every #every time

All morons hate it when you call them a moron. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#hate #moron #morons #them #you

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#funny #nobody #practically #say #something

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#disappear #higher #i #myself #policeman