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We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

Zadie Smith

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
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
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
The young people have a phrase for this now, which is “slay in your lane.” That’s a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can’t do, obscure it, and focus on what works.
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Out People Work Writing
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
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Insight Novelist Political
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.
ZADIE SMITH

Attention Ignored Something Worthy

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

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