George Saunders
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I was starting to have some feelings, you know.
And I thought, well, of course, they're human beings.
And I had the thought, this doesn't mean –
that what they're teaching you isn't true.
I remember that very distinctly.
Like they could be flawed, not flawed, but they could be flouting the rules in this realm.
And yet they could still have a solid basis.
And so, and I, then I turned around and walked out.
And as I walked out, I thought this is going to stay with me.
And I didn't tell anybody for 25 years or something like that.
I almost like to protect them because I like them both separately.
But that was a nice, not only a moment of realizing they were human, but realizing that human meant you contain multitudes.
You could be wonderful in this phase of your life and a real stinker in this one.
One didn't forgive or negate the other, but you had to keep both in mind.