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Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

George Saunders

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
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
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Honest Nonfiction Trying
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he’s made of sugar.
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Birthday Drama Rain
And the brevity is part of the challenge. I like stories because I get them – I know how to make beauty, or something like beauty, in that mode.
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Beauty Make Model Something
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
Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.
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Bored Goodbye Leaving
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
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
Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you’ll probably make it worse.
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Agree Broke Parks
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
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
When you’re embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you’re young and you’re trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, “if I don’t write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!”
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Good Law School Writing
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
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Compassion Earth Reason
My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.
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Long Nice Running
He was a father. That’s what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.
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Dad Day Ease Fathers
Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.
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Honest Monologues Way

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