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Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to.

George Saunders

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
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
As a writer I’m essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.
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Firsts Impression Stories Trying
I’m a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psychological apparatus of Americans.
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Country People School
Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.
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Honest Monologues Way
Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to.
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Happens Used 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
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
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
Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.
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Christian Kind Process Writer
If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.
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Destroy Forth Within You
[Writing] is almost like those boats that sit really low in the water; they look kind of ugly. And then you get one of them up to 80 miles an hour and the hull comes up, and it’s a beautiful thing. I’m okay with that for myself.
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Beautiful Water Writing
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
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Empathy Feelings Guilt
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
There’s this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting – which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.
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Ceiling Culture Self

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