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Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

George Saunders

…There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end… Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I’ve decried consumerism.
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Home Men Pieces
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it’s a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
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Desire Nice Thinking
The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.
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Denial Maturity Triumph
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
I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.
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Askance Form Really Scary
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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Ground Higher Luck Needs
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
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Form Kind Should
I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any time the person involved pretends that there’s not a cost to the choice.
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Karma Responsibility Teacher
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn’t see it. He can’t. He’s average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
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Average Culture Guy
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
I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, “Art, don’t come in here.” But that’s maybe a deeper question.
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Art Real Wonder
Compassion doesn’t have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.
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Compassion Enabling Weak
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
If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.
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Destroy Forth Within You
So here’s something I know to be true, although it’s a little corny, and I don’t quite know what to do with it.
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Advice Corny Littles

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