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Quotes About Insight

Fox 8, jeez, how cud you not smell Poop of Wolf when it is rite on your own dang paw?
~ George Saunders
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. The comic is the truth stripped of the habitual, the cushioning, the easy consolation.
~ George Saunders
What a story is "about" is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring. So: What do you care about in this story, so far? It's Marya.
~ George Saunders
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~ George Saunders
So asked myself: What mite somewhat retreev the old and hope full me? And replyed: Some ansers. Which is why I am riting this leter to you Yumans. I wud like to know what is rong with you peeple.
~ George Saunders
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. The comic is the truth stripped of the habitual, the cushioning, the easy consolation.
~ George Saunders
Leggiamo il libro ma, più profondamente, è il libro a leggere noi.
~ George Steiner
Algunos chamanes consideran el estrabismo como signo de que se posee un don profético.
~ George Steiner
I understand small business growth. I was one.
~ George W. Bush
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
~ George Washington
That discourse one might call the poetry of transgression is also knowledge. He who transgresses not only breaks a rule. He goes somewhere that the others are not; and he knows something the others don't know.
~ Georges Bataille
La maladie nous révèle des fonctions normales au moment précis où elle nous en interdit l'exercice.
~ Georges Canguilhem
a pesar de las apariencias, no se trata de un juego solitario: cada gesto que hace el jugador de puzzle ha sido hecho antes por el creador mismo.
~ Georges Perec
Woman is the window through which we see the world.
~ Georges Rodenbach
È conoscendo meglio la vittima che in genere si scopre l'assassino.
~ Georges Simenon
Maigret never took notes. If he had a propelling pencil in his hand and a paper in front of him, it was only to make doodles that had no connection with the case.
~ Georges Simenon
Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.
~ Georgette Heyer
Sir Nugent knew that Sylvester did not like him, but it never crossed his mind that Sylvester, or anyone else, held him in contempt. If he could have been brought to believe it, he would have known that Sylvester was queer in his attic, and he would have been very much shocked.
~ Georgette Heyer
It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books.
~ Georgette Heyer
There is nothing blinder than a very young woman.
~ Georgette Heyer
But I fancy I rather more sense than you give me credit for and also my dear I know you a trifle better than you do yourself. You will tell me that I am impertinent but so it is, little though you may think it.
~ Georgette Heyer
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
It was as if a lifetime's wisdom and peacefulness had found its way into her head while she was still young.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
And I thought I was the only one who put two and two together!" Everyone
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner