George Saunders Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

  George Saunders

  Age, Trying, Failing

• 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

  Dark, People, Age

• One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. But, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that Americans have not been living into them.

  George Saunders

  Book, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.

  George Saunders

  Want Something, Empathy, Tolerance

  Source: therumpus.net

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