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Zadie Smith

Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
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
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’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
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
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
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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
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 am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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