George Saunders Quotes About Fighting

• What was fun for me with this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was to start out with the principle that went, "We're going to fight every day to make this not a novel; make it too short to be a novel." And then with that principle in place, the book sort of starts to say, "Okay, but I really need this. I really need some historical nuggets." And you're like, "All right, but keep it under control."

  George Saunders

  Fun, Book, Fighting

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Lo mejor que podemos aportar a cualquier lucha es una mente tranquila y compasiva.

  George Saunders

  Lucha, Mente, Calma

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• I say yes to the hot bath and the sandwich - to getting ourselves into the best possible mental shape to identify and then fight the necessary fights from the best possible mind-state: calm, loving, affectionate, precise. Not pushovers but also not zealots. With the idea in mind that "our enemies" are not our enemies; they might seem like that in their present form but that form can morph. We really are large, and really do contain multitudes. But I think it all has to start with a kindly presence of mind, and the aspiration to affection for others.

  George Saunders

  Fighting, Thinking, Presence Of Mind

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• This whole literary game of trying to put yourself in the shoes of your opponent is good for everybody. It leaves you more open-hearted, it gives you a more accurate vision of the other person, because it's more based on curiosity than projection. In the end if you do have to fight, you're better equipped to fight. Also it doesn't leave you damaged at the end, it doesn't leave you hateful or malformed by your own anger.

  George Saunders

  Fighting, Games, Shoes

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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