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

George Saunders

If I can be more efficient, I’m actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.
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Intimacy Reader Respectful
I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I’m starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.
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Enough Littles Nuggets
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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Helping Technology Way
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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Ideas Trying Writing
Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.
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Doors Fiction Energetically Long
Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.
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Criticism Media Sniping
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.
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America Nuts Voice
I don’t feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.
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Feels Levels Prose
When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn’t quite articulate. And one of them was this move toward anti-intellectualism. An anti-love move, even.
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Anti Love Moving Pieces
I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.
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Believe People Persistence
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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Energy Passion Real
You can say you’re a liberal and everybody laughs and it’s a good time.
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Good Laughing Times
I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.
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Arise Art Future People Satisfy Thinking
The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
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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Fun Phone Thinking
It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.
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Attitude Desire Vignettes

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