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My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just goes under the coach. That I get. Beyond that, I’m a little lost.

George Saunders

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn’t damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.
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Denial Maturity Triumph
To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don’t know anything about to be some form of, quote, political correctness. These things are bubbling right under us.
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Consideration Groups Political
When I think about what fiction does morally, I’m happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities – sort of fragmented.
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Fiction Fragmented 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 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
There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.
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Continue Curiosity Long Losing Tired
Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: ‘Oh, I should tweet about this.’
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Hate Ideas Voice
I’m very happy – if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I’m thrilled.
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Littles Short Stories Story
I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.
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Air Stories Writing
An artist’s job is to be interested in things as they are.
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Artist Interested Jobs
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
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I’ve done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
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Engineering Jobs Thinking
I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any time the person involved pretends that there’s not a cost to the choice.
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Karma Responsibility Teacher
I’m fascinated with actors, and I’ve never quite understood the process.
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Actors Never Quit Process
What’s really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.
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Helping Technology Way

My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just goes under the coach. That I get. Beyond that, I’m a little lost.

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My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just goes under the coach. That I get. Beyond that, I’m a little lost.

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