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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,

George Saunders

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
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull – to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.
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Fiction Overall Same Time Trying Writing
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
And I have finally realized that, you know, it’s not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it – which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.
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Book Mean Writing
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
He was a father. That’s what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.
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Dad Day Ease Fathers
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
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
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Generous Life Short Trying
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
As a writer I’m essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.
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Firsts Impression Stories Trying
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
Compassion doesn’t have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.
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Compassion Enabling Weak
Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.
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Doors Fiction Energetically Long
I’m fascinated with actors, and I’ve never quite understood the process.
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Actors Never Quit Process
You can say you’re a liberal and everybody laughs and it’s a good time.
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Good Laughing Times
One way or the other; whether you get it or don’t get it, there’s a cost. That’s just basic responsibility, to admit that there’s a cost. And the bad karma is when you pretend that the thing is free.
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Free One Responsinbty Thing Time

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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