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We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death and whatever comes next, so reincarnation or heaven or hell.
George Saunders
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George Saunders
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 2
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If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.
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I would say one thing writing this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] did for me was underscore the fact that this issue [all men are created equal] has never been properly addressed and it hasn't gone away.
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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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If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.
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Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.
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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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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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We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.
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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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You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.
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In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.
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I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.
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I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.
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I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?
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I'm a control freak. I'm defensive. And I'm an egomaniac. That's true about me.
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