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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 have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I’m starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.
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Enough Littles Nuggets
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.
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America Nuts Voice
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
As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn’t really planned or planted.
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Book Feelings Surprise
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
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
Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.
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Firsts Heart Responsibility
I’ve seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.
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Process Trying Way
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you’ve spent your day.
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Empathy Heart
Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.
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Bored Goodbye Leaving
In the absolute sense – kind of from the God’s-eye view – God might feel like, “I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty.”
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Eye might Views
I was trained in seismic prospecting. We’d drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.
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Deep Dynamite Remotely
You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it’s not totally satisfied.
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Book Creating Expectations
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
Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.
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Doors Fiction Energetically Long
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad

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