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For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

Zadie Smith

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
I’m very attracted to exile literature – particularly Nabokov – exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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Home Idea Literature
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
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 secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
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Edit Secret Simple
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
ZADIE SMITH

Novel Pain Problem

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

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