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 More Quotes by Ben H. Winters More Quotes From Ben H. Winters 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. Ben H. Winters issues real play I think it's hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change. I think that, we as a culture, feel like politics is one sector of our lives that can feel apart from our personal lives and the cultural things we're interested in and the sports we watch. It feels like this separate, different thing. Ben H. Winters real sports thinking 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. Even after he was elected, and even now, it still feels impossible. It felt like we had fallen into this wormhole of history. Ben H. Winters campaigns political personality
