George Saunders Quotes About Goodness

Quotes about: Goodness

• Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.

  George Saunders

  Responsibility, Heart, Firsts

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• 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

• 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.

• Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

  George Saunders

  Heart, Responsibility, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

• If I go to the coffee shop and have a nice interaction with the barista, I don't know what that does for world peace, but we have to assume that in the great basket of goodness maybe that's one little micron or one little neutron that you've put in there.

  George Saunders

  Nice, Coffee, Littles

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