Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly … - Dana Spiotta

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Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens.

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.

Become, Certainty, Ease, Parameters, People, Simplicity

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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

Childhood, Concrete, Emotion, Memories, Purchase

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

Book, Concentration, Hunger, People, Think, Thinking

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

Authenticity, Coherence, Come, Formal, Satisfaction, Satisfactions

The writer has to be brave, I think.

Be Brave, Brave, Think, Thinking, Writer

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

Acting, Bad, Endeavor, School, Trying