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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.

Zadie Smith

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 lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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.
ZADIE SMITH

Ghost Risk Sublime
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
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
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
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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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