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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

Zadie Smith

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
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
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
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
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
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
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
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
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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