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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

Zadie Smith

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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
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
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
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
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
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
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
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
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

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