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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.

George Saunders

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.
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Firsts Heart Responsibility
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad
I’m a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psychological apparatus of Americans.
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Country People School
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
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
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
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
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Empathy Feelings Guilt
I don’t feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.
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Feels Levels Prose
All along, my mantra was: Don’t write unless it contributes to the emotion, and do anything you do in service of the emotion only.
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Contribute Emotion Service Writing
If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.
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Destroy Forth Within You
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
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Harsh Life Stories
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
One of the things I noticed about the Trump supporters was a lot of projected fear. I can’t tell you how many times a conversation went like this: “We’ve got to stop these immigrants, because it’s terrible.” I’d say, “Okay, what personally have you observed about this?” And there would be basically nothing in that box. And I’d say, “Where’d you get your information?” thinking they were going to say Fox. But they would always say, “Well, I get my information from all kinds of sources.” Fox is kind of center-left to a lot of people now.
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Information People Thinking
Art is not some inessential frippery – it is the nation’s means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts is to doom one’s nation to a life of incuriosity, dullness, literalness and the worst kind of rank materialism.
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Art Kind Literalness Mean Notion
Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it – every word has a big question mark over it.
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Remember Thinking Writing
If you’re going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it’s in the story or in the world, there’s a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.
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Acceptance Emotional Self

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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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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