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Ben H. Winters

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
The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go.
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Reality Support Thinking
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
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
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
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
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Fiction Prophesy Special
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
There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.
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Detectives Littles Novelty
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
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
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
History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.
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Better Linear Movement Thing
Our political divides have become our personal divides.
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Become Divide Personal Political
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
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

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