George Saunders

Tenth of December: Stories

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  • Илья Гущинhas quoted9 years ago
    I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.
  • Илья Гущинhas quoted9 years ago
    our protestations of love poured forth simultaneously, linguistically complex and metaphorically rich: I daresay we had become poets. We were allowed to lie there, limbs intermingled, for nearly an hour. It was bliss. It was perfection. It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
  • Илья Гущинhas quoted9 years ago
    The writer gets no points just because what’s inside the box bears some linear resemblance to ‘real life’—he can put whatever he wants in there. What’s important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit . . . In fact, Slaughterhouse-Five seemed to be saying that our most profound experiences may require this artistic uncoupling from the actual.
  • b4024334141has quoted9 years ago
    heightened bureaucratese, or a passively received vernacular
  • b4024334141has quoted9 years ago
    trope of all tropes
  • b4024334141has quoted9 years ago
    follies and foibles
  • Polina Gorbenkohas quoted9 years ago
    leaning in and encouraging.
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