commencement speech
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Nights to Remember
I offer all of this not by way of aimless self-revelation, but as a way of provoking you to remember your stories about similar incidents in your life, stories about the night, and who smoked what and who was doing who…
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Chapman Commencement Speech (Shed That Skin)
When you want to turn your world upside down and see what falls out of it, shed that skin.
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The Girl with the Hair in Her Mouth
“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness: those moments when another human being was there in front of me, suffering, and I responded sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly,” George Saunders said in his 2013 commencement address at Syracuse.…
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George Saunders’ Syracuse Graduation Speech to Be Published
In 2005, David Foster Wallace delivered his famous commencement speech to Kenyon’s graduating class, which was notorious for invoking the story about two young fish unable to recognize they are swimming in water. The speech was met with such widespread admiration…