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

Zadie Smith

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
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
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
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
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
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
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
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
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry

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

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