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I’m very happy – if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I’m thrilled.

George Saunders

Compassion doesn’t have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.
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Compassion Enabling Weak
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
And I have finally realized that, you know, it’s not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it – which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.
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Book Mean Writing
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
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
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too.
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Fiction Thinking World
Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.
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Firsts Heart Responsibility
Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.
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Criticism Media Sniping
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
An artist’s job is to be interested in things as they are.
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Artist Interested Jobs
Goodbye. I’m leaving because I’m bored.
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Bored Goodbye Leaving
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
The one thing about A Christmas Carol that always bothers me is that Cratchit is so sweet and perfect. He’s like an Ivy League kid who just is labeled “poor.” He doesn’t have any bad habits. He’s never cranky with his kids.
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Kids League Sports Sweet
Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: ‘Oh, I should tweet about this.’
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Hate Ideas Voice
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 read Rand and thought, “I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don’t want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches.” So I was working against my actual abilities.
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Leeches People World

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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