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We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

Zadie Smith

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
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
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
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
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
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
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
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

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