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

Zadie Smith

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
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
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
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
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
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
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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
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
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People

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