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History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

Ben H. Winters

I think it’s hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change.
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Real Sports Thinking
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
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Fiction Prophesy Special
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone’s mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.
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Imagination Mind Thinking
That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can’t just take for granted that things will steadily get better and better and better until they’re great. It is fits and starts. It is backward and forward.
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Community Country Get Better
Even after he was elected, and even now, it still feels impossible. It felt like we had fallen into this wormhole of history.
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Even Fallen Feel History Impossible Now
A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.
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Attention Book Discipline Half Require
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.
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Argument Heart Powerful
Our political divides have become our personal divides.
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Become Divide Personal Political
One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people’s lives, with real individuals.
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Issues Moral Play Real
We pretend that everything that has happened happened long ago, and then we act as if we all now just treat each other equally, everything will be fine.
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Each Other Everything Pretend Things Treat
We think, “Well, what are you gonna do?” In a way, that little instinct, that “What are you gonna do?” is the most dangerous thing in the world.
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Dangerous Instinct Little Think Way
There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.
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Detectives Littles Novelty
We spend so much time, these days, on forms of literature that don’t rise to be literature, and I’m speaking about Twitter posts and quick and hot takes on different websites. We sort of zoom from thing to thing like a hummingbird.
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Different Hot Post Zoom
The election of Donald Trump is, to me, this very clownish personality with no political experience, who had literally been using fascist slogans in his campaign. It had seemed so impossible.
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Campaign Personality Political
We forget the conditions – not only in slavery – but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opportunity. Or we forget today’s incarceration rates, and educational and housing discrimination; all of these things.
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Educational Long Opportunity
In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.
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Country Optimistic Thinking

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