"In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before."

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Lorin Stein

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“The reliance on social media as the avenue to get peer insight continues to increase.”
“I get offended when people say, `So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!”
“Donald Trump has clearly put conservative around him, he's clearly taking conservative policy positions, and I think for conservatives, the first, most important pick was selecting Mike Pence, then picking Neil Gorsuch to fill this tiebreaking vote on the Supreme Court. Looking at the Cabinet. Most conservatives are pretty happy.”
“There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.”
“With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.”
“From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.”
“The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.”
“No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'”

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