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

Zadie Smith

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
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
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 secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
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Edit Secret Simple
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
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
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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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.
ZADIE SMITH

Home Idea Literature

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