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Full stories are as rare as honesty.

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You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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Attention Ignored Something Worthy
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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Absolutely Essential Library
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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Interesting People Political
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders’] ghosts was a part of it.
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Ghost Risk Sublime
It’s difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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Book People Reveal Tell Truth
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn’t like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
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Intimate Writing Young
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Book People Reading
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it’s always smarter than you are.
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Form Novel Smarter
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

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