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Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

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Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. " What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.

Argument, Communicate, Emotional, Genuine, Poetry, Understanding
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Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment.

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Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

Historical, Moment, Moments, Sad, Survived, Teaching

I usually feel something before I know it.

Feels, Know, Knows, Usually

People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.

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There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.

Answers, Facts, Fiction, Question, Raise, Work
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