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Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

~George Saunders

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Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

~George Saunders

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Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

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Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

~George Saunders

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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

~George Saunders

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The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

~George Saunders

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The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

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I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.

~George Saunders

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I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

~George Saunders

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The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

~George Saunders

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 2nd, 1958

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