George Saunders Quotes
I Can Look Back And See That I've Spent Much Of My Life In A Cloud Of Things That Have Tended To Push "being Kind" To The Periphery. Things Like: Anxiety. Fear. Insecurity. Ambition. The Mistaken Belief That Enough Accomplishment Will Rid Me Of All That Anxiety, Fear, Insecurity, And Ambition. The Belief That If I Can Only Accrue Enough - Enough Accomplishment, Money, Fame - My Neuroses Will Disappear. I've Been In This Fog Certainly Since, At Least, My Own Graduation Day. Over The Years I've Felt: Kindness, Sure - But First Let Me Finish This Semester, This Degree, This Book; Let Me Succeed At This Job, And Afford This House, And Raise These Kids, And Then, Finally, When All Is Accomplished, I'll Get Started On The Kindness. Except It Never All Gets Accomplished. It's A Cycle That Can Go On ... Well, Forever.
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