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Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

George Saunders

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
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Empathy Feelings Guilt
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
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Honest Nonfiction Trying
I read to make myself feel awake.
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Awake Feels Myself
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
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
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
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
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Generous Life Short Trying
I’ve noticed that nowadays I’m doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn’t do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired:
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Interesting Phones Technology
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
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
When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That’s actually where it all comes from.
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Empathy Feelings Thinking
Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.
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Bored Goodbye Leaving
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 think something that I can’t name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
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Moving Names Thinking
The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.
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Artist Ideas Understanding
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.
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America Nuts Voice

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