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How to Find Real Life in Stories with George Saunders

The One You Feed

CHAPTER

The Storytelling of Morality

I think with questions of morality for me, I don't like not knowing, but it feels like the right place to be. The job of a work of art isn't to answer a question but to formulate it correctly. Because of the storytelling, the question gets elevated. So your original easy answer is invalidated and all the way up the chain until we're in the best stories. It's just so damn hard though, you know, in real life, it's really hard.

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