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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.

George Saunders

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
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
I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that “reader” is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.
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Actually Kind Mood Odd Stories
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
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Empathy Feelings Guilt
“Kindness” can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump’s] supporters in as fair a light as possible – many of them hadn’t been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.
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Kindness Light Mean
Whole idea is really intriguing to me. If you took snapshots of ourselves throughout the day, the way that our mind is twisting and turning, then at the moment of death, the mind would be twisting and turning in the same way. But the Buddhists say it’s super-sized because there’s no bodily damper on it.
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Buddhist Ideas Mind
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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Giving Important Mean Up
So, good news/bad news: good news that I’m progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
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Art Life Long Short
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
I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion.
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Compassion Play Thinking
Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.
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Firsts Heart Responsibility
I think about how I conceptualize the audience. The trick is that they’ve got to be smarter and more worldly than me. So as I’m revising, I’m keeping that in mind. I cannot condescend, even a little bit. Every single choice that I make is motivated by that.
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Choices Mind Thinking
Nostalgia is, ‘Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?’
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Hey Nostalgia Remember
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
The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.
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Artist Ideas Understanding
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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