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How to Find Real Life in Stories with George Saunders

The One You Feed

CHAPTER

The Cliffs of Unceasing Desire

"I just want to bring up two points from the latest book and one is the story ghoul which is really funny." "Every man is born with a certain store of desire it is a treasure he has been bequeathed that he must spend wisely over the course of his life. He who finds a worthy object shaped by god provided fortuitously unto him that elicits his longing so strongly that all else briefly recedes and he becomes pure desire" 'When i've put all my faith in my desires there's just nothing there you know like when i was younger i had some idea that like a fear of death and that somehow if i just wrote a great book then what i

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