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George Saunders

When somebody you’ve known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you’re trying to re-create in fiction is that.
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Thinking Trying Years
“Kindness” can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump’s] supporters in as fair a light as possible – many of them hadn’t been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.
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Kindness Light Mean
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
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
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.
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Action Humans Light
The book says [Lincoln in the Bardo],”I really need this sci-fi device of a ghost inhabiting another person.” You say okay kind of begrudgingly. So the structure seemed informed by need and efficiency.
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Book Kind Needs Structure
To understand any plea for further consideration of a group you don’t know anything about to be some form of, quote, political correctness. These things are bubbling right under us.
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Consideration Groups Political
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
The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we’re ruled by big talking turds, it doesn’t mean that we are. So you shouldn’t feel depressed.
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Depressed Hopeful Mean Talking
The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.
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Denial Maturity Triumph
I read to make myself feel awake.
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Awake Feels Myself
Success makes opportunities and so many of those “opportunities” are actually exemptions – from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.
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Hardship Opportunity Struggle
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
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Empathy Feelings Guilt
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
I’m not a natural criticizer – I prefer to like and praise and so on.
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Critizixe Natural Praise
I don’t feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.
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Feels Levels Prose

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