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The one thing I noticed retroactively was that the energy at those Trump rallies was off the charts compared to the Hillary Clinton rallies. The Bernie Sanders energy was as good, gentler, but there was a real passion there.

George Saunders

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
Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it – every word has a big question mark over it.
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Remember Thinking Writing
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
I’m not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I’m just trusting that, if I’m working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.
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Book Stories Thinking
I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, “Art, don’t come in here.” But that’s maybe a deeper question.
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Art Real Wonder
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull – to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.
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Fiction Overall Same Time Trying Writing
Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.
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Bored Goodbye Leaving
I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I’m starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.
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Enough Littles Nuggets
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
I’m not a natural criticizer – I prefer to like and praise and so on.
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Critizixe Natural Praise
I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, “Yuck, yuck, yuck, I’m gonna be evil.”
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Morning People Thinking
An artist’s job is to be interested in things as they are.
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Artist Interested Jobs
I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that “reader” is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.
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Actually Kind Mood Odd Stories
What’s really baffling to me is the way that the technology has risen up to help us become more materialistic.
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Helping Technology Way
I’ve always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
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Energetic Normal Writing
At times, they’re so Right and I’m so Left, we agree.
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Agree Left Right

The one thing I noticed retroactively was that the energy at those Trump rallies was off the charts compared to the Hillary Clinton rallies. The Bernie Sanders energy was as good, gentler, but there was a real passion there.

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The one thing I noticed retroactively was that the energy at those Trump rallies was off the charts compared to the Hillary Clinton rallies. The Bernie Sanders energy was as good, gentler, but there was a real passion there.

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