You Have to Invoke All Your Energies

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Every day you have a really considerable chance to engage with your ego and see the wayt that thing tricks you. There is a suppose toli king around the world, hoping you're gong to find a mountain thatt continues to go up forever. You can be in a good relation to that suff or bad relation to it. Or you can have one pes or whatever, an go, that was good. So there's kind of, it's up to you, and it's to me, it's become one of the really interesting, ansevery benefits of this kind of life.

George Saunders is the author of eleven books. His latest is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.

”I really have so much affection for being alive. I really enjoy it. And yet, I’m a little negative minded in a lot of ways too, like I really think things tend to be fucked up. ... To get that on the page—to sufficiently praise the loveliness of the world without being a sap, and also lacerate the world for being so goddamn mean—to do those in the same story would be a great aspiration. And I haven’t gotten there yet.”

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