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For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

Zadie Smith

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
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
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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 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
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
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

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

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