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Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

George Saunders

Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.
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Remember Steps Victory
I’ve seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.
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Process Trying Way
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
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.
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Meanness Sake Tradition
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you’ve spent your day.
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Empathy Heart
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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Crazy Goodbye Mad
Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.
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Bored Goodbye Leaving
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
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
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
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Fiction God Kindness Life
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
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
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
I have finally realized that, you know, it’s not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.
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Aspiration Given Writing
Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a certain number of those sub-people come alive or get reenergized for some finite time.
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Numbers People Thinking
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.
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Permanent Prayer Reading Real Suddenly

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