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Zadie Smith

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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
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
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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Absolutely Essential Library
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’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
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
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White

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