Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews George Saunders (Published 2021)
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Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews George Saunders (Published 2021)
The writer George Saunders, speaking of his own near-death experience, said, “For three or four days after that, it was the most beautiful world. To have gotten back in it, you know? And I thought, if you could walk around like that all the time, to really have that awareness that it’s actually going to end. That’s the trick.”
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