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I think it’s hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change.

Ben H. Winters

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
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
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
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
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Fiction Prophesy Special
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
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
I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people’s experiences.
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People Responsibility Thinking
It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are bad, and are going on right now, somewhere far away.
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Away Far Thinking World
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
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
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.
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Blood Blue Depression
Our political divides have become our personal divides.
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Become Divide Personal Political
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
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
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

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