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Steve Almond Biography

Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published.

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You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up. Tragedies happen and that you have to allow kids to experience their own fear and guilt and sorrow. It's the cover-up that really screws people over. Unfortunately, America specializes in cover-ups.

Happen, Kids, Parent, Parents, People, Tragedies

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

Biggest, Giving Up, Literary, Refused, Stress, Taken

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

Answer, Answers, Choose, Freak, Freaks, Life

I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As an author, you either love yer peeps or you don't. There's no such thing as a "masculine voice" or a "feminine voice". Men and women think and speak and act in, like, a zillion different ways. Also, as a gross generalization: women tend to live closer to their feelings than men.

Emotional, Feelings, Live, Masculine, Men, Thinking

I'm going to proportion more time to organizing and taking action and less time to passively consuming news that is dispiriting me. Part of this will be to get off social media. I know social media is just a tool, but we've been using it in a way that has transformed us from a nation into an audience, passively spectating our own ruin.

Action, Audience, Social Media, Taking, Using

I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

Heart, Heavy, Love, Men, Soul, Sudden

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

Candy, Children, Cracks, Defending, Hard Times, Ways

I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of the government and we're letting them make us into a much meaner culture. It reminds me of McCarthyism, to be honest, and to the early stages of fascism. There are people out there cheering for war, treating those deaths like some kind of athletic event. How sick do we have to be that this is not only acceptable, but virtually unchallenged by other politicians or clergy or anyone? And it's artists who have to stand up and be counted. Right now.

Art, Artists, Cheer, Kind, Selfish, Treating

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

Diagnose, Explain, Kindness, Mistake, Mistakes, Peers

People in long-term, monogamous relationships are crushed by the expectation that a partner is going to provide everything they are looking for and wondering why they are dissatisfied when they have four of the ten boxes checked.

Crushed, Dissatisfied, Expectations, Four, People, Wonder

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

Has Beens, Huge, Nihilistic, Sports, Truth, Truth Is

There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.

Army, Football, Give, Invisible, Men, Speak

A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whose wisdom seems boundless and whose approval helps us discover who we are.

Approval, Figures, Helps, Parent, Teacher, Who We Are

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

Close, Done, Eye, Night, Proud

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

Football, History, Successful, Terms, Wait, Waiting

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

Cloaks, Form, Forms, Grief, Rage

A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself to consume. And it's a big drag. But it's also the only way to kick the habit.

Drag, Football, Having, Kick, Media, Way

Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense and demands more than other sports. And this is why the folks who are involved (as players, coaches, boosters, fans) are so much more devoted to it. It's really a cult, when you think about it.

Cult, Demands, Football, Kids, Population, Sports

I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.

Crazy, Sounds, Sports, Supports, Thinking

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

Candy, Children, Holiday, Liberating, Stranger, Strangers

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