"A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not..."

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"A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not..."
““A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.””

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George Saunders

[via NYT]

(via theatlantic)