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Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.

George Saunders

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 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
I’m turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don’t have an infinite number of years left and if there’s anything you want to say or represent, it’s time to try it.
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Guy Numbers Years
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
Compassion doesn’t have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.
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Compassion Enabling Weak
An artist’s job is to be interested in things as they are.
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Artist Interested Jobs
For me, when I’m coming up to a place where I have to make somebody up, it’s almost like driving and taking your hands off the wheel.
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Driving Hands Wheels
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
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 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
The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He’s like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled “poor.” He doesn’t have any bad habits. He’s never cranky with his kids.
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Kids League Sports Sweet
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
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Honest Nonfiction Trying
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
Success makes opportunities and so many of those “opportunities” are actually exemptions – from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.
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Hardship Opportunity Struggle
When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
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Greek Kids World
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

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