George Seurat, detail of Sunday at Port-en-Bessin, 1888
Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.
- Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat, La Grande Jatte, 1884
That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality – your soul, if you will – is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.
- George Saunders
Anyway, what I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters. It reawakens the reader to the fact and the value of her own existence.
- George Saunders
Georges Seurat, Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbour, 1888
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
- George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.
- George Saunders
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