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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

Zadie Smith

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
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
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
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
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 often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
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
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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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Incredible Luxury World Writing
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

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