George Saunders Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. December 2, 1958
Birthday: December 2
I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.
source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
topic: Taken, Ignorance, Mean, Mean Person, Intellectual Life
