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I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

George Saunders

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
I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That’s really the truth. I like the idea that a story is sort of a site for making cool language effects – a site for celebrating language, and, therefore, the world.
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Challenges Ideas Writing
[Writing] is almost like those boats that sit really low in the water; they look kind of ugly. And then you get one of them up to 80 miles an hour and the hull comes up, and it’s a beautiful thing. I’m okay with that for myself.
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Beautiful Water Writing
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you’ve spent your day.
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Empathy Heart
I’ve always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
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Energetic Normal Writing
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
I read to make myself feel awake.
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Awake Feels Myself
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
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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Erosion Grace Intellectual
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
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Appreciating Fear Love Mistakes People
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
Nostalgia is, ‘Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?’
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Hey Nostalgia Remember
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad
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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Moving Names Thinking
I have finally realized that, you know, it’s not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.
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Aspiration Given Writing
I’ve noticed that nowadays I’m doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn’t do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired:
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Interesting Phones Technology

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

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