A Quote by Dana Spiotta

Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.

Dana Spiotta

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Dana Spiotta
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Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

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