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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!”

George Saunders

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
It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.
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Attitude Desire Vignettes
In my case, when I am trying to be “kind” I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.
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Be Kind Truthful Trying
So, good news/bad news: good news that I’m progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
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Art Life Long Short
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
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
Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.
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Honest Monologues Way
That’s the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, “Well, I don’t know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can.”
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Add Figures Way
It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.
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Guy Rotten Way
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
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
I’m very happy – if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I’m thrilled.
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Littles Short Stories Story
…smile first, then speak.
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Firsts Smile Speak
Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart – then and only then act.
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Firsts Heart Responsibility
I’m turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don’t have an infinite number of years left and if there’s anything you want to say or represent, it’s time to try it.
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Guy Numbers Years
To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don’t know anything about to be some form of, quote, political correctness. These things are bubbling right under us.
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Consideration Groups Political

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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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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