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My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.
George Saunders
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George Saunders
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: December 2
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Amarillo
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All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.
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I think when you see [Donald] Trump in person, my reaction is you kind of enjoy it. It's kind of an enjoyable night out.
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Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
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Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.
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As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.
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Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.
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The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.
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My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just goes under the coach. That I get. Beyond that, I'm a little lost.
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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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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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