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George Saunders

When somebody you’ve known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you’re trying to re-create in fiction is that.
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Thinking Trying Years
So, good news/bad news: good news that I’m progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
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Art Life Long Short
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
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Fiction God Kindness Life
I’m getting anxious, I’m getting more manic. Now, I’m an extreme case because I’m old and I’m overdoing it. But still, it’s really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.
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Extreme Interesting Neurochemistry
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.
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Meanness Sake Tradition
Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it – every word has a big question mark over it.
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Remember Thinking Writing
Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer’s job is: go out and find some stuff to love.
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Jobs Stuff Young Writers
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
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Empathy Feelings Guilt
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be very, very assertive about the utter essentiality of intellectual undertakings.
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Moving People Thinking
Art is not some inessential frippery – it is the nation’s means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts is to doom one’s nation to a life of incuriosity, dullness, literalness and the worst kind of rank materialism.
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Art Kind Literalness Mean Notion
If you have a friend, what’s the best way you can experience her beauty? It’s to really accept her. She’s weird in this way,
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Judging Thinking Trying
…smile first, then speak.
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Firsts Smile Speak
I’m not a big fan of my books going on cross-country road trips. They get arrogant and, next thing, start aspiring to become ‘large-print’ books. I say, let them stay home and be regular small-print books.
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Book Country Home
If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.
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Henchmen Sentimental Tendencies
An artist’s job is to be interested in things as they are.
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Artist Interested Jobs
Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.
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Advice Confusion Medicine

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

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