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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

Zadie Smith

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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
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
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
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 cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
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 greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

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