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I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

~George Saunders

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I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

~George Saunders

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That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

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Topics: Brief Definition Discovered Me Novel Seems Story Way

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I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.

~George Saunders

Topics: About Beautifully Because Bit Down Feel Feeling Find Get Hard Life Like Me Myself Paper Positive Presented Race Really Show Technically Turned Very Way Year

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And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

~George Saunders

Topics: Accommodate Aspirations Books Could Course Each Finally Fully Get Given Intend Know Live Me Means More Realized Six Take Which Will Would Writing Years You

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I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

~George Saunders

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Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

~George Saunders

Topics: Conceptual Connection Feel Human Left Might More Most Occasion Pain People Politics Presented Put Right Rise Supposed Way Whatever Will You Your

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I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

~George Saunders

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You know, you can talk about race, you can talk about sex, you can talk about your biopsy. But when you get into class, people kind of clench up.

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For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.

~George Saunders

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 2nd, 1958

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