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Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.

Zadie Smith

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
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
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.

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Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.

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