Reads tagged with “George Saunders”
George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
“At the end of my life, I know I won’t be wishing I’d held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishes and fears of the people around me.”
Of Wonder, the Courage of Uncertainty, and How to Hear Your Soul: The Best of The Marginalian 2023
2,000 Years of Kindness
From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.
How (Not) to Love: Unbreaking Our Hearts by Breaking Our Patterns, or, Chekhov’s Insight into the Most Disquieting and Liberating Truth about Love
“We want to believe that love is singular and exclusive, and it unnerves us to think that it might actually be renewable…”
Can Goodness Win? George Saunders on Writing, the Artist’s Task, and the Importance of Living with Opposing Truths
“See how long you can stay in that space, where both things are true… That’s a great place to try to be.”
War, Peace, and Our Possible Futures: George Saunders on Storytelling the World’s Fate and the Antidote to Media Manipulation
“War is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.”
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
“In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in the company of someone confident enough to stay unsure (that is, perpetually curious).”
Highlights in Hindsight: Favorite Books of the Past Year
Trees, hummingbirds, snails, Stoicism, storytelling, Orwell’s roses, the crucible of consciousness, the end of the universe, and more trees.
A Process for the Transfer of Energy and Feeling: George Saunders on the Key to Great Storytelling
“What a story is ‘about’ is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring.”
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