George Saunders Quotes About War

• What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

  George Saunders

  War, Guy, Slaughterhouse Five

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.82, A&C Black

• La guerra de Vonnegut era necesaria. Y, sin embargo, era masacre y gritos y confusión y sangre y muerte. Era la gigantesca proyección al exterior de la confusa vida interior de los hombres. En la guerra, las tristes y ordenadas construcciones que hacemos para ayudarnos a creer que la vida es ordenada y controlable se desechan bruscamente como los delirios que son. En la guerra, el amor se revela como una emoción insana e insoportable, una especie de emoción de lujo, porque mires donde mires, alguien querido por alguien está siendo masacrado, por alguien cuyo propio ser querido ha sido masacrado, o lo será, o podría serlo.

  George Saunders

  Confused, War, Believe

• I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us.

  George Saunders

  War, Reading, Writing

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

• Nothing will turn you into a Civil War buff like five years of reading. Some of the letters that people wrote from that time are so deep and so beautifully articulate. And you realize, especially with the stuff that's going on now in America, that it's always been chaos - people were disagreeing at least as much as they are now and 20,000 people would die in a day. It's the scale that's amazing, and also the proximity to our own time.

  George Saunders

  War, Reading, America

  "George Saunders Has Written a Weird and Brilliant Novel". Interview with Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2017.

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