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Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

George Saunders

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.
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Criticism Media Sniping
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
The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it’s all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.
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Book Firsts Rules 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
…smile first, then speak.
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Firsts Smile Speak
I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you by; it translates into a great sense of personal frustration that can then morph into political frustration.
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Class Frustration Political
“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
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
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
I’ve always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
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Energetic Normal 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
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
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Generous Life Short Trying
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad
Even when the faith goes away, there’s that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that’s kind of where art came in, after that.
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Art Kind Space
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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Becoming Graduation Life
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

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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