What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.
George SaundersTags: acceptance difference america disagreement americans craziness buying purchasing
Weird sunshower around three.
Linda Hertney: It's like a final goodbye from Todd. (Linda = nut. Once claimed crow on ledge was reincarnation of her dead husband. Said she could tell by way crow's head was cocked disapprovingly at large lunch she was eating.)
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The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.
George SaundersWhat I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
George SaundersKissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass.
George SaundersThomas: Wow, that treehouse is like twice the size of our actual house.
Pam (whispering): Don't say 'like.'
Me: Oh, ha ha, let him say what he wants, let's not be--
Thomas: That treehouse is twice the size of our actual house.
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Ted, I swear to God, quothe he.
George SaundersTags: humor
Sometimes with all the teasing his days were subtenable.
George SaundersAmerican society is uncomfortable with the idea that some people’s lives are difficult past the point of sanity and that they aren’t necessarily to blame. There’s no way you can argue that everyone has a difficult life. This is an incredible culture; the majority of people live in amazing comfort, with real dignity, maybe more comfort and dignity than any other culture in the history of the world. We live relatively safe and sane lives, which, if you’ve ever loved anybody and therefore feared for them, is a wonderful thing. But part of our moral responsibility is to keep in our minds those whose lives are unsafe and insane. In this way, fiction can be like a meditation, a way of saying: Though things are this way for me right now, they could be different later and are different for others this very moment.
George SaundersIt should, as Chekhov said, prepare us for tenderness. And in this regard it starts, I think, with intention.... Our intention is to crack life open for just a second.
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