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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. if i want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, i cleave the character in half, on his birthday. and then it starts raining. and he's made of sugar.
-George Saunders
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I Tend To Foster Drama Via Bleakness.

George Saunders
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. if i want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, i cleave the character in half, on his birthday. and then it starts raining. and he's made of sugar.
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