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Time is how you spend your love.

Zadie Smith

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
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
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
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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
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
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry

Time is how you spend your love.

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