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The thing I’ve discovered that is a help is that there isn’t a simple virtue or a simple vice. They’re always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.

George Saunders

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.
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Air Stories Writing
Do all the other things, the ambitious things – travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.
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Falling In Love Graduation Kindness
That’s the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, “Well, I don’t know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can.”
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Add Figures Way
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
Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.
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Firsts Heart Responsibility
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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Crazy Goodbye Mad
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
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
Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.
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Bored Goodbye Leaving
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
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’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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Country People School
There’s this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting – which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.
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Ceiling Culture Self
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you’ve spent your day.
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Empathy Heart
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

The thing I’ve discovered that is a help is that there isn’t a simple virtue or a simple vice. They’re always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.

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The thing I’ve discovered that is a help is that there isn’t a simple virtue or a simple vice. They’re always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.

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