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I’m not a natural criticizer – I prefer to like and praise and so on.

George Saunders

One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it’s going to, we can just relax and do it.
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Anxiety Relax Stories
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
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.
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Action Humans Light
I heard Zen teacher one time talking about abortion, and he was saying the way that abortion makes bad karma is any time the person involved pretends that there’s not a cost to the choice.
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Karma Responsibility Teacher
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be very, very assertive about the utter essentiality of intellectual undertakings.
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Moving People Thinking
If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.
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Henchmen Sentimental Tendencies
If I can be more efficient, I’m actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.
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Intimacy Reader Respectful
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
Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.
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Criticism Media Sniping
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
You can see a whole book as a series of creating an expectation and then delivering a skew on that expectation so it’s not totally satisfied.
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Book Creating Expectations
I’m from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped in that world.Those of us who come up that way made a series of choices to benefit ourselves and make ourselves more generous and open.
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Benefits Choices Class
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort – and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.
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Erosion Grace Intellectual
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.
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Meanness Sake Tradition
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
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

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