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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

Zadie Smith

Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
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 am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
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
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
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
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Edit Secret Simple

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