I'm Not Your Best Self, but You're Your Truest Self

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When i read a story of mine that i'm finished with, i feel like i've burted out something with more integrity than i usually have. It's so interesting that you think of that as not just your best self, but your truest self. Yea, maybe those two things are just synonymous. I mean, else i dont wn t make too much of it. And yet, point you get to the last line, and ou iya. That's, that's, that’s it.

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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