#more

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. ↗

— George Saunders

#cut #fiction #funny #happened #hasn

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect. ↗

— George Saunders

#am #been #confidence #dark #dark side

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ↗

— George Santayana

#each #enabling #fortifying #help #human

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. ↗

— George Santayana

#military #more #religion #rhetorical #than

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#because #credit #driven #energy #engine

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#known #more #more people #myth #need

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#american #american culture #archaeology #convinced #culture

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#diplomacy #english #french #international #international language

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#likely #more #more and more #received #resentment