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The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

~George Saunders

Topics: Been Built Cool Desert Disney Dubai East Francisco Last Middle Middle East Out Parts Reputation San San Francisco Size Ten Ten Years Vegas Venice Were Won World Years

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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.

~George Saunders

Topics: Around Awake Aware Come Just Little Love More Out Percent Read Reader Short Short Story Story Want World You

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The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

~George Saunders

Topics: Been Fear Habitual Hurtful Life Love Making Mistakes My Life Neuroses Over People Realize Same Scariest Slave Someday Thought Through Up Wake Wake Up World I Love

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Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

~George Saunders

Topics: Honesty Irony Just Up Volume

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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

~George Saunders

Topics: Age Aspire Die Fail Posture Shrink Then Try Vanish

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To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.

~George Saunders

Topics: About Anyway Care Caring Dedicate Happen Job Just Less Main Make Me Meanings More More Or Less Reader Right Seeing She Story Such A Way Take Take Care Them Themselves Theory Things Things Happen Way Writer You Yourself

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More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

~George Saunders

Topics: Couple Days Doing Each Evil Find Flying Football Football Players Goes Goodness Happens Having Helmet Like Making More More And More Myself Off Other Players Representation Run See Standing Stays Stories Then Those Two Who Whose

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My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

~George Saunders

Topics: Age Am Been Confidence Dark Dark Side Edgy Expect Fact Habit Loving Maybe More Now People Prove Say Side Something Than Things Towards True Well Would Yeah You I Am I Can

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So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

~George Saunders

Topics: Childhood Gothic Had Makes May Own I May Not

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It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

~George Saunders

Topics: Accounts Actually Consciousness Course Create Day Durable Even Given Go Goal Instantaneous Me Minds Moment Our Representation Seems Somewhat Strange Things Tiny Truthful Try Worthy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 2nd, 1958

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