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  • George Saunders Quote - I think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
  • George Saunders Quote - I think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
  • George Saunders Quote - I think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
  • George Saunders Quote - I think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
  • George Saunders Quote - I think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
  • George Saunders Quote - I think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
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I think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.

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    I always cheerfully say, “Well, you know, the species is adapting, and whatever it needs to do, it’ll do,” but I do think it’s maybe a little bit alarming.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram George Saunders Quote - We’re in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death and whatever comes next, so reincarnation or heaven or hell. Download This Image

    We’re in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death and whatever comes next, so reincarnation or heaven or hell.

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    You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it’s not totally satisfied.

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    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram George Saunders Quote - My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you’re really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces – trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.

    My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you’re really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces – trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.

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    I’m a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psycho­logical apparatus of Americans.

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    You can say you’re a liberal and everybody laughs and it’s a good time.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram George Saunders Quote - When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. Download This Image

    When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

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    I was trained in seismic prospecting. We’d drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.

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    With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

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    Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort – and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.

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    The one thing I noticed retroactively was that the energy at those Trump rallies was off the charts compared to the Hillary Clinton rallies. The Bernie Sanders energy was as good, gentler, but there was a real passion there.

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    If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

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    What’s really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.

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    I’m very happy – if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I’m thrilled.

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    I’m turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don’t have an infinite number of years left and if there’s anything you want to say or represent, it’s time to try it.

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