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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
~ Nate Silver
Future
Making
Mistake
Past
Predict
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You
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
~ Nate Silver
Acting
Almost
American
American Economy
Between
Chaos
Complex
Degree
Dynamic
Economy
Interactions
Literal
Million
Million People
People
Really
Sense
System
Theory
Ways
Whenever
You
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You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
~ Nate Silver
Arbitrary
Build
Choices
Dealing
Example
Financial
For Example
Good
Instrument
Lot
Making
Model
New
Pretty
Respects
Situation
Statistical
Then
Type
Well
You
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
~ Nate Silver
Forecast
Influence
Same
System
Trying
Want
You
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
~ Nate Silver
Any
Person
Treat
Want
You
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
~ Nate Silver
Get
Nerves
Playing
Poker
You
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As someone who spent a lot of years living in Jerusalem, one of the great perks is that when you come back, and you get into these Israel arguments in your American-Jewish clan, you can really just silence them by saying, 'I lived there.' So we used it like a bludgeon.
~ Nathan Englander
Argument
Back
Clan
Come
Get
Great
Israel
Jerusalem
Just
Like
Lived
Living
Lot
Perks
Really
Saying
Silence
Someone
Spent
Them
Used
Who
Years
You
Your
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Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
~ Nathan Englander
Empathy
Me
Terrifying
Watching
World
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Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book coming into the world. It's an expressly loaded subject, one on which you can't win.
~ Nathan Englander
Been
Book
Both
Coming
Every
Excited
Loaded
Never
Subject
Terrified
Vulnerable
Which
Win
World
You
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Every nation should wrestle with the question of what it means to defend itself, what it means to take revenge.
~ Nathan Englander
Defend
Every
Every Nation
Itself
Means
Nation
Question
Revenge
Should
Take
Wrestle
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Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.
~ Nathan Englander
Brain
Clearer
Crazy
Elements
End
Everything
Framed
Freed
Imagine
Infinite
Infinity
Limited
Limiting
Maybe
Much
Once
Place
Sounds
Story
Those
Truly
Up
Without
World
Writing
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For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.
~ Nathan Englander
Be Real
Book
Character
Cover
Deep
Exactly
Exactly What
Function
Happens
Imagine
Real
Reality
Spy
Who
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Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it.
~ Nathan Englander
Because
Different
Experience
Gravity
Human
Human Experience
Infinite
Just
Just Because
Lives
Mean
Stories
Story
Write
You
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I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
~ Nathan Englander
Always
Call
Either
Goes
Myself
Optimist
Optimistic
Pessimist
Pessimistic
Sure
Way
Which
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I am a fifth-generation American, but from a young age, I went to yeshiva. I spent 12 hours a day with rabbis, and I think in Yiddish. To this day, I have to go back and unravel my writing and polish it so everyone doesn't sound like an old Jewish woman.
~ Nathan Englander
Age
Am
American
Back
Day
Everyone
Go
Hours
I Am
I Think
Jewish
Like
Old
Polish
Sound
Spent
Think
Unravel
Woman
Writing
Young
Young Age
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I didn't sleep the night I finished 'Sister Hills.' It was so unsettling. I felt really wild. I didn't have a clue. It's a very loaded subject, and I did not know what I had. I was interested in watching how choices unfold over time. It's a story that's raising questions.
~ Nathan Englander
Choices
Clue
Did
Felt
Finished
Had
Hills
How
Interested
Know
Loaded
Night
Over
Questions
Raising
Really
Sister
Sleep
Story
Subject
Time
Unfold
Unsettling
Very
Watching
Wild
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I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the work ends up being corrupted. It becomes didactic. What a book does is share a consciousness and invite people to explore the questions as best as you can.
~ Nathan Englander
Answers
Becomes
Being
Best
Book
Consciousness
Corrupted
Didactic
Does
Ends
Explore
Fact
Give
I Think
In Fact
Invite
Job
Opinions
People
Questions
Share
Think
Up
Work
Writer
You
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I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.
~ Nathan Englander
Career
Feel
Go
I Can
I Feel
Lucky
Me
Now
Project
Ready
Say
Start
Very
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I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned my ABCs, they taught us our Aleph-Bet at the same time.
~ Nathan Englander
Grew
Hardly
I Was Raised
Language
Learned
Our
Raised
Religious
Same
Same Time
Second
Taught
Time
Tradition
Up
Us
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I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like more and more of an impossibility.
~ Nathan Englander
Anymore
Believes
Else
Gone
Impossibility
Know
Like
More
More And More
Nobody
Peace
Seems
Toward
Work
Years
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