George Saunders Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• 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

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

• I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil."

  George Saunders

  Morning, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

  George Saunders

  Evil, Firsts, Doe

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil." I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.

  George Saunders

  Morning, Good Day, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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