George Saunders Quotes about Empathy

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I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones,

I don't like that new age posture where you kind of tilt your head. I don't like that posture right now. I want something a little more confident and more sure of the values that we're defending, which are the old ones, love and empathy and patience and tolerance and civility. Not to get into politics or anything.

George Saunders

Want Something, Empathy, Tolerance

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My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.

George Saunders

Heart, Empathy, My Heart

George Saunders (2007). “The Braindead Megaphone”, p.120, Penguin

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

George Saunders

Thinking, Empathy, Feelings

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