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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.

Ben H. Winters

Our political divides have become our personal divides.
BEN H. WINTERS

Become Divide Personal Political
I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.
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Gift Great Press Sense Support Think
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
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.
BEN H. WINTERS

Imagination Mind Thinking
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it’s all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.
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Book Falling Love Writing
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
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
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
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.
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Blood Blue Depression
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
History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.
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Better Linear Movement Thing
One thing we’ve learned about Donald Trump – this candidate first, president-elect, and now president – is that he has this sort of reptilian instinct for rooting out supposed enemies and finding people he can whip up distrust into rage.
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Enemy People President
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
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
There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear and the tomatoes we eat. There are unfortunately unfair and inhumane conditions – including literal slavery – all over the world.
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People Slavery World
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

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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