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With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

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
You can say you’re a liberal and everybody laughs and it’s a good time.
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Good Laughing Times
I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.
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Askance Form Really Scary
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
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Aware Stories Want World
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
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
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
“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
I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue – having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly – in a good way.
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Kindness Simple Thinking
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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Littles Stories Wind
When somebody you’ve known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you’re trying to re-create in fiction is that.
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Thinking Trying Years
A culture’s ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.
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People Survival Watches
At times, they’re so Right and I’m so Left, we agree.
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Agree Left Right
Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.
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Honest Monologues Way
One of the inspiring things about Susan Sarandon career is that there’s a quality of real fearlessness in it – you seem to be in it for the challenge and the experience.
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Careers Challenges Real
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

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