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Zadie Smith

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
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 greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
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
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
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
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
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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
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 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

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